As yet, a stout resistance you can make, And never stoop your back, my friend; But wait a bit, and let us see the end."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

I dare say, she would not have refused your company; for she seems to be a good-humoured soul.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

When the river first begins to rise, you can run half a dozen of the deepest of them; when it rises a foot more you can run another dozen; the next foot will add a couple of dozen, and so on: so you see you have to know your banks and marks to a dead moral certainty, and never get them mixed; for when you start through one of those cracks, there's no backing out again, as there is in the big river; you've got to go through, or stay there six months if you get caught on a falling river.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

[55-2] Para dar realce a todas estas elevadísimas doctrinas, y cediendo también a un espíritu de equidad, nosotros, que nos complacemos frecuentemente en referir y celebrar los actos 15 heroicos de los españoles durante la Guerra de la Independencia , [55-3]
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

If we are ruined, you can carve and take charge of the stable, and I can be a governess to Lady Jane's children.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

‘Yes; but—’ ‘And did you not say that your affection must be founded on approbation; and that, unless you could approve and honour and respect, you could not love?’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

"The only reason you can assign to Mr. Fairlie for your departure, before the end of your engagement, must be that an unforeseen necessity compels you to ask his permission to return at once to London.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

"Now then, Sue, at any rate, you can do what you like!"
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Tátaw sa bintánà ang ílang rinubuhay, You could see them necking clearly through the window.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[Reads] You can come to-morrow and fetch these documents....
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For who could replace you, my brave Klaus, best of all foremen, and yourself head-foreman after the worthy Roland with his smile under his bushy beard had himself vanished into that primeval forest from which no one has ever yet emerged, any more than all the treasures of the archipelago which your Javanese aunt was to bring, could replace your Christel, or your eight boys, who, since as boys they cannot compare with their mother, try their best to be as like her as possible, and have all her blue Hollander's eyes and blond hair.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

If you start with the colour red you can make all sorts of modifications and bring out orange, purple and brown, but the red basis will show itself all down the scale of colour, and so if you start with a basis of blue, blue will show itself all down the scale of various colours.
— from The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

Whatever may be in this, in the midst of an ignorant and superstitious nation, perpetually fed with oracles and pompous promises; miserable at that time and discontented with the Roman yoke; continually cajoled with the expectation of a deliverer, who was to restore them with honor, our enthusiast without difficulty found an audience, and, by degrees, adherents.
— from Ecce Homo! Or, A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

When you are away from all that reminds, you cannot fail to forget."
— from Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Will you endeavour to restrain your caprices, in order to give vigour to affection, and to give play to the checked sentiments that nature intended should expand your heart?
— from The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft

Peyssonnel, a Provençal naturalist, found the utmost difficulty in opposing this idea, and in establishing the fact that these supposed flowers of the coral were in reality young corals.
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

If you can control the reversal, you can return matter, energy, and space to its former state.
— from Disaster Revisited by Stephen Marlowe

Secondly, I would say, recollect you cannot do any one thing of all the duties I have been speaking of, without God's help.
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman