“I have never said anything about it up to now, because I have always imagined that this might prevent your accomplishing your desire.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

You may often find yourself out of humour, and you may often think your wife not studious enough to please you; and yet you may have reason to consider yourself as upon the whole very happily married.' 1770: AETAT.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

I will provide you and your fellows of a good standing to see his entry."
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

“We thought that it was probably you, as your friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes is so well known.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

As a single bud out of many thousands produced year after year on the same tree under uniform conditions, has been known suddenly to assume a new character; and as buds on distinct trees, growing under different conditions, have sometimes yielded nearly the same variety—for instance, buds on peach-trees producing nectarines, and buds on common roses producing moss-roses—we clearly see that the nature of the conditions is of subordinate importance in comparison with the nature of the organism in determining each particular form of variation; perhaps of not more importance than the nature of the spark, by which a mass of combustible matter is ignited, has in determining the nature of the flames.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Come, come, if nothing else will put you at your ease, I'll make the tea and have a cup with you."
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In all the clam'rous cry of starving want, They dun Benevolence with shameless front; Oblige them, patronise their tinsel lays— They persecute you all your future days!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

You’ve worked very hard this past year and you have succeeded.”
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Why, right; you are in the right; And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit that we shake hands, and part: You as your business and desire shall point you, For every man hath business and desire, Such as it is;—and, for my own poor part, Look you, I will go pray.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

May Heaven punish you as you deserve!
— from The White Prophet, Volume 1 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

Yet, when he met you, he'd greet you just as one neighbour greets another,—and if you were frightened, he knew so well how to put you at your ease—ay, you understand me—he walked out, rode out, just as it came into his head, with very few followers.
— from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sit ye down, man, and just put yourself at your ease.
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

"Moody!" said the captain, folding his arms, "I just punished you as your com [Pg 43] mander's subordinate; now that it is over we again stand man to man; if you feel that I have wronged you, take your weapons.
— from The Corsair King by Mór Jókai

Esdr 1:4 And said, Ye shall no more bear the ark upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord your God, and minister unto his people Israel, and prepare you after your families and kindreds, 1 Esdr 1:5
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

I must protect you against yourself,—against myself.
— from Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill

none would live past years again; Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give 927 .' It was observed to Dr. Johnson, that it seemed strange that he, who has so often delighted his company by his lively and brilliant conversation, should say he was miserable.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

But I can't for my life make out why you don't take to one or t'other of them, and put yourself at your ease.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 3 of 5) by Fanny Burney

Fortunately there is no need of such a record, for Nature renews the picture year after year; and even when we shall have passed away from the world, we can spiritually create these scenes, so that we may dispense with all efforts to put them into words.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

We wish this motto affectation were put an end to—the Royal Academy are sadly puzzled year after year to hit upon a piece of Latin that will do, and their labour in that line is often in vain.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various