—A pesar de todo—indicó doña Perfecta, sonriendo ya con más naturalidad,—yo soy siempre la misma para mi querido sobrino, a pesar de sus ideas extravagantes y antireligiosas... ¿De qué creerás que me pienso ocupar esta 10 noche?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
— from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The proverb says, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

This is a proverb, signifying you cannot separate the tares from wheat.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

Tell him just how the fingers hurried, Then how they waded, slow, slow, slow; And then you wished you had eyes in your pages, So you could see what moved them so.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

I’m pretty sure you can do whatever you want.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Insimáha na ang inyung mga papil arun makakurihir na kamu, Exchange your papers so you can correct them.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

( 5) Here commenced a traffic in human beings by English-speaking people (scarcely yet ceased) that involved murder, arson, theft, and all the cruelty and crimes incident to the capture, transportation, and subjection of human beings to the lust, avarice, and power of man.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

It was in a sense poor because it was mostly ambitious stuff, and, as the proverb says, "You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren."
— from Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

“You are not in your right mind,” said Pepa sadly, “you can turn me out of the room—but not out of your heart.”
— from Leon Roch: A Romance, vol. 2 (of 2) by Benito Pérez Galdós

Pa says you can do as you please about staying longer.
— from As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur

"This system is not so easy as the second, which I shall presently show you," continued Chichester; "becau
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

'If it hadn't bin for my bein' in a surplus chore seven year, and so knowin' "Lord a' mercy" to the Ten Commandments, and my dooty to my neighbour, you'd never a wore breeches agin, sir, for I wouldn't never ave come back to them steps with a prick in my conshinse, sir, for fear as there was more in them dress pants than meets the eye, as the sayin' is; though why the nation, savin' your presence, sir, you come to took 'em off, beats me!'
— from Voices in the Night by Flora Annie Webster Steel

The Mollusca, or soft-bodied animals, of whose protecting shells your collection consists, form a sub-kingdom, and are subdivided into four classes:— Cephalopoda.
— from Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by B. B. (Bernard Bolingbroke) Woodward