Singula de nobis anni prædantur euntes —The years as they pass bereave us first of one thing and then another.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

[171] I ask primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

You see plainly enough that your anger has only made me ten times more unreasonable."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

'Tis true that I perceive easily that your affection is returned; But what can be the consequences of this attachment?
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

But I discover, plainly enough, that you are impervious to all intellectual greatness of claim.
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

We represent certain interests, as I shall presently explain to you, and you are to be our representative,--our man in possession," and the old gentleman laughed uncannily.
— from Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne

"Aye," said the corporal, "this is proof enough that you are no Papists; if you were, this book would not have lain here.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

The mothers had a right prior even to yours, and I needed two assistants.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

it is plain enough that you are a stranger, since your discretion is so scanty and strange; if I knew that you were to be one of the twelve I would give you these gloves!
— from Amadis of Gaul, Vol. 3 of 4. by Vasco de Lobeira

The elder of the two was a sturdy, plain-featured lad, uninteresting except to the parental eye; the younger a beauty, a bewitching, plump, curly-headed cherub of four years, with widely-opened grey eyes and a Cupid’s bow of a mouth.
— from Big Game: A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Professor A.L. Lowell, in the work above referred to, after speaking of the Treasury as the department which exhibits in the highest degree the merits of the British Government, points out that even ten years ago, "with the waning desire for economy and the growth of other interests, the Treasury has to some extent lost its predominant position; although it will no doubt maintain its control over the details of expenditure, one cannot feel certain that its head will regain the powerful influence upon general or financial policy exerted thirty years ago."
— from Rebuilding Britain: A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War by Hopkinson, Alfred, Sir

Most persons, especially the young and vigorous, soon become accustomed to cool, and even cold water baths, at all seasons of the year.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

We see plainly enough that you are bad men, brigands, nobodies , liars.
— from The Devil's Pool by George Sand

It is very possible, probable even, that your avowal will enlighten her as to the state of her own heart.
— from A Romance of Youth — Volume 3 by François Coppée