He would not allow her to read to him, and scarcely to sit with him, alleging nervous susceptibility to sounds and movements; yet she suspected that in shutting himself up in his private room he wanted to be busy with his papers.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I can recollect my own feelings, and I have looked steadily around me; yet, so far from coinciding with him in opinion respecting the first dawn of the female character, I will venture to affirm, that a girl, whose spirits have not been damped by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp, and the doll will never excite attention unless confinement allows her no alternative.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

If madame says anything, mind you say nothing about it.”
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Just gains some frontier, breathless, pale, amazed, All gaze, all wonder: thus Achilles gazed: Thus stood the attendants stupid with surprise: All mute, yet seem'd to question with their eyes: Each look'd on other, none the silence broke, Till thus at last the kingly suppliant spoke: "Ah think, thou favour'd of the powers divine!
— from The Iliad by Homer

H. Beveridge, i. 171 f.) gives the names as follows: Aghūz Khān, whose sons were—Kūn (Sun); Ai (Moon); Yūlduz (Star); Kok or Gok (Sky); Tāgh (Mountain); Tangīz (Sky)].
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

‘It’s very odd, Miss Grey, that the carriage should always make you sick: it never makes me ,’ remarked Miss Matilda, ‘Nor me either,’ said her sister; ‘but I dare say it would, if I sat where she does—such a nasty, horrid place, Miss Grey; I wonder how you can bear it!’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

I do, my lord, and in her eye I find A wonder, or a wondrous miracle, The shadow of myself form'd in her eye; Which, being but the shadow of your son, Becomes a sun, and makes your son a shadow.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

‘Here’s your health, Sammy, and may you speedily vipe off the disgrace as you’ve inflicted on the family name.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

What from the founder Esop fell, In neat familiar verse I tell: Twofold’s the genius of the page, To make you smile and make you sage.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Six days of hard and incessant toil made but little impression; I do not think that the hole would have been a satisfactory shelter for even Master Knips; but we still did not despair, and were presently rewarded by coming to softer and more yielding substance; our work progressed, and our minds were relieved.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

I observed that, the farther you were from mountains the finer they looked; that when once you had scaled a mountain you seemed to [Pg 56] lose all respect for it; and that I had a reverence for Tinkler's Nob which I should be loth to disturb.
— from Saddle and Mocassin by Francis Francis

That tempted me to listen, and then, Manuel, I learned all the shame and misery you so generously tried to spare me.
— from Pauline's Passion and Punishment by Louisa May Alcott

Tell no one what I have said, and mind you start early.
— from The Nō Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley

I do, my lord, and in her eye I find A wonder, or a wondrous miracle, The shadow of myself form'd in her eye; Which, being but the shadow of your son, Becomes a sun, and makes your son a shadow: I do protest I never lov'd myself
— from King John by William Shakespeare

I'm ready to start any minute you say."
— from The Boy With the U. S. Survey by Francis Rolt-Wheeler