She doesn't look a day older nor last year: she's the finest-made woman as is, let the next be where she will.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

2. 8. 74, 5 burst your buttons, or not left you seame.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

But ours, instead of tumbling down, might fly up like a balloon, or even just miss the tight-rope and dance on nothing like you see a murderer at Newgate.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

Not one of you would eat soup from the point of a spoon, nor spread a whole slice of bread at once, nor leave your spoon in your cup, which is a great comfort to a mother.
— from The Mary Frances Cook Book; Or, Adventures Among the Kitchen People by Jane Eayre Fryer

"Law or no law, you shall have the money and interest, or your security, which is this business.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

One, consisting of certain knights, gentlemen, merchants, and other adventurers of the city of London, and elsewhere, was called the first colony, and was required to settle between the 34th and 41st degrees of north latitude; the other, consisting of certain knights, gentlemen, merchants, and other adventurers of Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, and elsewhere, was named the second colony, and was ordered to settle between the 38th and 45th degrees of north latitude; yet so that the colony last formed should not be planted within one hundred miles of the prior establishment.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

God gives his denial to the idea that government over man is the result of a social compact, in which each individual man living in a state of natural liberty, yielded some of that liberty to secure the greater good of government.
— from Slavery Ordained of God by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Ross

And as for intellectual development, though Alexandria wants, as she has always wanted, that insular and exclusive position which seems almost necessary to develop original thought and original national life, yet she may still act as the point of fusion for distinct schools and polities, and the young and buoyant vigour of the new-born nations may at once teach, and learn from, the prudence, the experience, the traditional wisdom of the ancient Europeans.
— from Alexandria and Her Schools Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh by Charles Kingsley

But let me tell you," he added, "law or no law, you shall never live in this house while I 'm alive and able to shoot a gun.
— from Checkers: A Hard-luck Story by Henry Blossom

“He’s sitting in there,” nodding toward the surgery, “strung up to an awful pitch of nervousness lest you should be blind with—er—well, we’ll call it annoyance, and poison someone by accident.”
— from Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Gertrude Page

Lord or no lord, you shall hang!”
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice