Come, you look paler and paler; pray you draw homewards.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

When you become very rich and powerful, and people pay you court, it follows in many cases that you become exacting and domineering.
— from Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister

She wants proof, and positive proof, you know.
— from Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon

After observing that many hundreds of the English were witnesses to the friendly disposition of the Narragansets, he says, “their late famous long-lived Canonicus so lived and died, and in the same most honourable manner and solemnity, (in their way,) as you laid to sleep your prudent peace-maker, Mr. Winthrop, did they honour this their prudent and peaceable prince; yea, through all their towns and countries how frequently do many, and oft times our Englishmen, travel alone with safety and loving kindness?”
— from Anecdotes of the American Indians Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character by Alexander Vietts Blake

Papa stood there, with that curious smile he has on his face when he puzzles and perplexes people, you know; and in a few minutes Mr. Oldham was in a terrible rage.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

" "Good," said he, "you are quite right, to draw is the first object; but, sir, if you should ever paint, and paint portraits, you will often meet with difficulties.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

Cel. Come, you look paler and paler: pray you, draw 175 homewards.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9] by William Shakespeare

The boon is this: when you have joined the Earl of Gloucester--when you see yourself at the head of armies--and when you feel your royal mind at liberty to act with power and success, publish a proclamation pledging yourself to uphold all those laws and ordinances which have been enacted for the safety of the land, for the rights and liberties of the people, and for our protection from foreign minions and base favourites--laws and ordinances to which you have once already given your consent.
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The provinces of Salamanca and Zamora contain some of the most peculiar and picturesque peasantry yet remaining in Spain; even around Salamanca the festal dresses of the Charros and Charras are rich with gold and silver ornaments of Moorish type.
— from Spain by Wentworth Webster

I argued that Violetta would probably love curious and exotic combinations, so I dressed her first act in a gown of rose pink and pale primrose yellow.
— from Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg