But all the time he was in Paris, you, of course, did not lose sight of him?”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Compare the singing of immigrant school children, “My can’t three teas of tea” for “My country ’tis of thee,” or “Pas de lieu Rhone que nous” with “Paddle your own canoe.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Jove, I wish I were a painter to put you on canvas as you were that night!"
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

It pleased God to send a very plentiful year of corn and fruit, but not of hay or grass—by which means bread was cheap, by reason of the plenty of corn.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

— láin pa yes, of course (is there anything or anyone else).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The other, hearing this, was well pleased and made answer to him, saying, "Sir, though you gave me all you have in the world, you might not avail to have my palfrey by way of sale, but by way of gift you may have it, whenas it pleaseth you, on condition that, ere you take it, I may have leave to speak some words with your lady in your presence, but so far removed from every one that I may be heard of none other than herself.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Preserve your own character, remain to them friendly, benevolent, gracious.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

DON JUAN: ¡Bah! pues yo os complaceré Bah.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Nurse, I want you to tell me something I have often wondered about--how could you have the heart to put your own child out among strangers? Nurse .
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

In the meaningless French words ' pas de lieu Rhône que nous ,' who can recognize immediately the English 'paddle your own canoe'?
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

"I'd like to please you, of course," said Kathleen.
— from The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade

Now, if you prefer your own country wine, only say it: I have several bottles in my cellar, with corks as long as rapiers, and as polished.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

Demons and death then I sing, Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war, And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children, Blent with the sounds of the peaceful land and the liquid wash of the sea, And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke, And the icy cool of the far, far north, with rustling cedars and pines, And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south, And the beach-waves combing over the beach on my Eastern shore, and my Western shore the same, And all between those shores, and my ever running Mississippi with bends and chutes, And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri, The Continent, devoting the whole identity without reserving an atom, Pour in!
— from Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman

1 25 Strong and Steady ; or, Paddle Your Own Canoe.
— from Go-Ahead; Or, The Fisher-Boy's Motto by Harry Castlemon

15 Paddle Your Own Canoe.
— from Nevada; or, The Lost Mine, A Drama in Three Acts by George M. (George Melville) Baker