I need hardly ask again, but shall assume that you agree with me.
— from Laws by Plato

The greatest Gratitude you can shew him is to let him see you are the better Man for his Services; and that you are as ready to oblige others, as he is to oblige you.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Do monks such things?' 'Madam,' answered he, 'when as I shall have this gown off my back,—and I can put it off mighty easily,—I shall appear to you a man fashioned like other men and not a monk.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He will then proceed to argue that this is he who gives the season and the years, and is the guardian of all that is in the visible world, and in a certain way the cause of all C things which he and his fellows have been accustomed to behold?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

It will be seen that their attachment had led to something more than the usual fingerings and caressings of school girls, indeed, had led them on to the lewdest and most lascivious indulgences that two girls could practise in common, and had first excited their passions and given them the delicious power of pleasing coition they were both so perfect in, for, as I before said, about two years after this time, I was the possessor of both and many and many an orgy we three had together, without the shadow of jealousy on any side.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

When he had the Sack on his Back, and ready to go with it, she cry’d, Stay, my Dear, some of his Clothes hang out, which I will put in; and with that, taking the Pack-needle with the Thread, sew’d the Sack, with several strong Stitches, to the Collar of Villenoy’s Coat, without his perceiving it, and bid him go now; and when you come to the Bridge, (said she) and that you are throwing him over the Rail, (which is not above Breast high) be sure you give him a good swing, least the Sack should hang on any thing at the side of the Bridge, and not fall into the Stream; I’le warrant you, (said Villenoys )
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume V by Aphra Behn

I was courted (said she) above three Years ago, when my Mother was yet living, by one Mr. Fondlove , a Gentleman of good Estate, and true Worth; and one who, I dare believe, did then really love me:
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume V by Aphra Behn

All this has taken Professor Skeat twenty-five years, and in order to pass competent judgment on his conclusions the critic must follow him step by step through his researches—which will take the critic (even if we are charitable enough to suppose his mental equipment equal to Professor Skeat's) another ten years at least.
— from Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Quiller-Couch

But the total statistics of Protestant missions tell only of handfuls of converts scattered among the yellow and brown and black races, a number grotesquely disproportionate to the immense outlay.
— from A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

“The girl of whom I wrote you last summer, and told you about in the fall.
— from A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

I remember a dinner given by the Whitman Society about twenty years ago, at the St. Denis Hotel, which was both grotesque and pitiable.
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

Having embarked with his horse and his slender appointments on board a fishing-skiff, she instantly raised her temporary mast, spread a sail across the yard, and, supported by the force of the wind against the downward power of the current, moved across the river obliquely in the direction of Kirch-hoff, which, as we have said, lies somewhat lower on the river than Hans-Kapelle.
— from Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter Scott

"Did Mr. Horton say anything to you about your lodgings while here?" asked the caretaker.
— from The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier by V. T. Sherman