But it is a queer bed to sleep in, for your head and your heels [Pg 143] are both of them stuck up in the air, while your body hangs underneath in a graceful curve.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Good Stutely, cut thou a fair white piece of bark four fingers in breadth, and set it fourscore yards distant on yonder oak.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

You cut off abundance, make the law of supply inoperative for you, by shutting your mind to it.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

ns, setting aside every other business, are to C dedicate themselves wholly to the maintenance of freedom in the State, making this their craft, and engaging in no work which does not bear on this end, they ought not to practise or imitate anything else; if they imitate at all, they should imitate from youth upward only those characters which are suitable to their profession—the courageous, temperate, holy, free, and the like; but they should not depict or be skilful at imitating any kind of illiberality or baseness, lest from imitation they should come to be what they imitate.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

As for what I said to you to-night, I said it for your good.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

you have paid but for a single post—whereas ’tis a post and a half; and this obliges you to pull out your book of post-roads, the print of which is so very small, it forces you to open your eyes, whether you will or no:
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Best Image of my self and dearer half, The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep Affects me equally; nor can I like This uncouth dream, of evil sprung I fear; Yet evil whence?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

If you have written any such letter, and, after sending it, find you have made any error in a statement, write, and correct the mistake immediately.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

A second injunction for your discipline concerns food.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

612 A ; his stories improper for youth, 2. 377 D ; his classification of the races, 8. 547 A ; a wandering rhapsode, 10.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

That it had even the briefest reference elsewhere, was not recalled by the author of the book, for he had not seen it for years.
— from An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

" verra sorry it frichtit ye.
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

Old men still walk the Isle of Orr Who tell her date and name, Old shipwrights sit in Freeport yards Who hewed her oaken frame.
— from Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

She is five years my junior, I think, so that I regarded her as a younger sister.
— from Luke Walton by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

" The child rose, and advancing toward her old enemy, took her large hand in hers and said: "I forgive you, Peg.
— from Jack's Ward; Or, The Boy Guardian by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The Nile, then, has a Lord who controls the water-level; and He who has measured out the starry vault, and laid the foundations of the earth, has set up a wall for the waters, and this wall, which we cannot see, is fifteen yards high.
— from Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg

"You shall see it for yourself, sir—you shall see it for yourself!" cried Captain Thunder, with excitement.
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 3 (of 3) by William Clark Russell