There, on thoughts that once were mine, Day looks down the eastern steep, And the youth at morning shine Makes the vow he will not keep.
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

Accordingly, when the wheel was relieved at eight o'clock, the order was given to keep her due north, and all hands were turned up to square away the yards and make sail.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

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

The bliss which makes all things true, beautiful, and holy shone around this youth and maiden.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

If Mr. Raffles Haw says anything to you about me, or asks any questions, please don't say anything about Hector.
— from The Doings of Raffles Haw by Arthur Conan Doyle

"With the same amount that you advanced me, of course," gravely responded the girl.
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

Meanwhile the Grand Austro-Russian army passed the Seine and the Yonne at Montereau, and even sent forward a corps which advanced as far as Fontainebleau.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

Swayed by each light suspicion, A trifle yet alarms me; Come, come inside here!
— from Libretto: La Bohème by Luigi Illica

Gladys's entrance into the public school after two years at Miss Russell's had caused quite a stir among the girls of the neighborhood, who in times past had been wont to consider her proud and haughty, but her simple, unaffected manner quickly won for her a secure place in the affections of all.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at School; Or, The Wohelo Weavers by Hildegard G. Frey

In the morning of the 23rd we set sail, course held S.E. with a S.W. wind and violent rains; when we had run a mile, the heavy swells forced us to drop anchor; in the afternoon we lifted anchor with great difficulty and peril owing to the violent rolling of the yacht, and set sail, but shortly after, the yacht Aernem making a sign with her flag that she could not manage to heave her anchor, we cast anchor again.
— from The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 by J. E. (Jan Ernst) Heeres

And at the dinner-table, speaking partly in justification of his own line of conduct, and partly in apology for the manner in which he had met Mrs. Waring's intercession of the morning, he said: "You emphasize this matter too much, madam; this Fannie is, after all, but one sufferer among thousands; you also mistake in endowing these creatures with the same acuteness of feelings that we possess; there is a difference, madam!
— from The Haunted Homestead: A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Is it by so improbable and artfully framed a story as this, you are made unhappy; and for this you resign your crown and hasten to secure Remeses in power?"
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

It is simply impossible for them in the few months that they can work the land to cultivate it so as to yield any more than their taxes.
— from The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman