[For example, we might say “Let y mean ‘English,’ so that y′ will mean ‘foreign’”, and we might suppose that we had subdivided “old books” into the two Classes whose Differentiæ are “English” and “foreign”, and had assigned the North- West Cell to “old English books”, and the North- East Cell to “old foreign books.”]
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Son, let your mother end.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"You are so liberal yourself, Mr. Errington," cried Mrs. Ormonde, "I dare say you are often imposed upon in spite of your wisdom."
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

I shall leave you my executor, Evelyn; or, rather, it will be safer to do the whole thing by deed of gift.
— from Sunrise by William Black

"You may consider the virtues of Shennung and Yuyen," says Liehtse; "you may examine the books of Yu, Kia, Shang, and Chow,"—that is, the whole of history;—"you may weight the utterances of the great Teachers and Sages; but you will find no instance of preservation or destruction, fulness or decay, which has not obeyed this supreme Law of Causality."
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

"Be that as it may," Young told them, "I should like your most earnest consideration of my petition.
— from Second Childhood by Clifford D. Simak

I can’t speak loud; you must excuse me.
— from A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

If their genius leads them to be scholars, I would have them sent to Oxford, but placed in two distinct colleges; and if inclined to study law you may enter them in the Temple.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

“We be main glad to see you again looking so like yourself, Miss,” exclaimed Dame Hobby.
— from Clara Maynard; Or, The True and the False: A Tale of the Times by William Henry Giles Kingston