The SENATORS appear upon the walls Till now you have gone on and fill'd the time With all licentious measure, making your wills The scope of justice; till now, myself, and such As slept within the shadow of your power, Have wander'd with our travers'd arms, and breath'd Our sufferance vainly.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"You say often you wish a library.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Hearing this, one of them turned round and said, "Oh, yes, you treated us all right—too well, in fact; it was just that that put us on our guard.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

“Wendy,” he said, the sly one, “you could tuck us in at night.”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Ye Powers And Spirits of this nethermost Abyss, Chaos and Ancient Night , I come no Spie, With purpose to explore or to disturb The secrets of your Realm, but by constraint Wandring this darksome desart, as my way Lies through your spacious Empire up to light, Alone, and without guide, half lost, I seek What readiest path leads where your gloomie bounds Confine with Heav’n; or if som other place From your Dominion won, th’ Ethereal King Possesses lately, thither to arrive I travel this profound, direct my course;
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

As soon as you let them get hold of these ideas, you may give up all attempt at further education; in spite of you they will be like all the other scholars—you have wasted fourteen years.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She shall know it all, said he; and I defy the utmost stretch of your malice.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

"I am ignorant, sir, of your motives or provocations; I only know, that you have acted like a man who cuts off his right hand with his left."
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

To what extent can falsity and indifference towards truth and utility be a sign of youth, of childishness, in the artist?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

inínà, gánì ang ímu putì, We have the same shirt, only yours is white.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Again he laughed, saying: “Oh, yes, I got the keys all right!”
— from The Broken Thread by William Le Queux

Now the last is that he's been seen somewhere the other side of your place, an' two troopers have gone out to-day to see if there's any truth in the rumour.”
— from A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce

Also, the bats are in the habit of resorting to caverns, clefts in the rocks, deserted ruins, and similar dark places, wherein they pass the hours of daylight, and will frequent the same spots for a long series of years.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

The general state and condition of those unfortunate persons whose crimes had brought them under the severe cognisance and judgement of the laws, and whose lives only had been spared by the late happily increasing liberality of modern opinion and feeling, have for a long series of years occupied little public attention.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

“Don’t be too sure of your game, you yellow cur,” he said scornfully, hoping to anger the halfbreed.
— from Mason of Bar X Ranch by Henry Holcomb Bennett

And then, as the motherly Irish woman, with a quizzical smile on her face, started to the house for the liniment, Mr. Sneed said: "Oh, you needn't make such a fuss over me.
— from The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film by Laura Lee Hope

"You are a woman, Cornelia, and it would be wicked to cast a word of doubt into the sanctuary of your pious heart.
— from A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern

His dark auburn hair, in short ringlets parted in the middle, gave his sunburnt countenance a likeness to some of the old gentle families with which he was allied, his father having been a son of younger sons, in a date when primogeniture prevailed in all this bay region; and therefore, possessing nothing, he went into the war against England as a sailor, and his family influence obtained for him command of the new privateer launched on the Manokin, the Ida , which set sail with a good crew and superior armament, amid the acclaims of all Somerset, and, sailing past the Capes into the ocean with all her bunting flying, slid down the farther world to everlasting silence and the vapors of mystery.
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

I shall observe your directions.
— from Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened by John Aikin