The author begins with the statement that he is going to supply an index of the pratīkas and so forth of the Rigveda according to the authorities ( yathopadeçam ), because without such knowledge the Çrauta and Smārta rites cannot be accomplished.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

All these rumours and this talk about you would never have arisen if you had been like other men: tell us, then, what is the cause of them, for we should be sorry to judge hastily of you.'
— from Apology by Plato

If it had been true, as currently reported at the time and yet believed by thousands of people, that Prentiss and his division had been captured in their beds, there would not have been an all-day struggle, with the loss of thousands killed and wounded on the Confederate side.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Besides, there ain't nobody as I knows of would like a hog to be a-rootin' round among their turnips and young wheat."
— from The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn

Mivins, the steward, was, as we have already remarked, a tall, thin, active young man, of a brisk, lively disposition, and was somewhat of a butt among the men, but being in a position of power and trust, he was respected.
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Oh, I know I shan’t like Florence as well as Rome, and then, too, all you boys won’t be there.
— from Patty's Pleasure Trip by Carolyn Wells

And now, my child, lead me home, and let this man rage against them that are younger than I.”
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church

[159] The younger Raymond, at this time a youth of eighteen, hardened by years of adversity, was winning in manner, and is said to have made a most favorable impression on Innocent, who dismissed him with a benediction and good advice; not to take what belonged to another, but to defend his own—“res de l’autrui non pregas; lo teu, se degun lo te vol hostar, deffendas”—and he made {184} haste to follow the counsel, according to his own interpretation.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

And now, my child, lead me home, and let this man rage against them that are younger than I."
— from Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred John Church

Lucy deigned Bessie no reply, and turning to another young lady, asked, "When is the wedding to be?"
— from Homestead on the Hillside by Mary Jane Holmes

How do they all bless, revere, extol, your noble brother!—How do they wish—And how do they regret—you know what—Yet how ready are they to applaud your Harriet, if she can hold her magnanimity, in preferring the happiness of Clementina to her own!—My grandmamma and aunt are of opinion, that I should; and they praise me for the generosity of my effort, whether the superior merits of the man will or will not allow me to succeed in it.
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

You can’t quite raise a team, then? Are you a sort of young Tyldesley, too?”
— from Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

If you want to do justice to me, you'll remove all that talk, and you can only do it by going on.
— from The Hall and the Grange: A Novel by Archibald Marshall