‘Who said he was to have six pound a year?’ said Quilp, looking sharply round.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

that you were your self; but, love you are No longer yours, than you your self here live: Against this coming end you should prepare, And your sweet semblance to some other give: So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination; then you were Yourself again, after yourself's decease, When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

These stiller persons at your side Have manners much more dignified.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

The house is mine here, and the doors are open; If there be any such persons as you seek for, Use your authority, search on o' God's name.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Such manners too; so playful, and yet so sewerely proper!
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The essential difference consists in this, that War is no activity of the will, which exerts itself upon inanimate matter like the mechanical Arts; or upon a living but still passive and yielding subject, like the human mind and the human feelings in the ideal Arts, but against a living and reacting force.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

But fear not yet To take upon you what is yours: you may Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty, And yet seem cold, the time you may so hoodwink.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

I have ever loved my cousin; but not so passionately as you seem to think."
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

National Democratic Party (PND), Mohamed Arsalane EL-JADIDI; Party for Progress and Socialism (PPS), Ali YATA Suffrage: 21 years of age; universal Elections: Chamber of Representatives: last held on 14 September 1984 (were scheduled for September 1990, but postponed until June 1993 when 27 new seats will be added); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (306 total, 206 elected) UC 83, RNI 61, MP 47, Istiqlal 41, USFP 36, PND 24, other 14 Executive branch: monarch, prime minister, Council of Ministers (cabinet)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Such great stags, and so proud, and yet so timid, the least thing made them go bound, bound, bound."
— from The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

“Come, come, Sir Percy, and you, Sir Robin, whom indeed the letter you brought me from Lady Peggy the other night doth most highly commend to my good offices, must be friends,” taking a hand of each.
— from My Lady Peggy Goes to Town by Frances Aymar Mathews

“You have it right,” he said, seeming pleased, “and your script is clear if boyish.
— from The Virgin of the Sun by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Ramsey's talent for taking in everything at once was taxed to its limit when at the same time that she attended to him she watched an elegant steamer, one of the Saturday-evening boats out of Cincinnati, pass remotely on the Arkansas side behind Island Thirty-six; marked the return of the Californian as he followed her from his conference with the twins; noted the slow, preoccupied passing of Hugh and his grandfather to the captain's room; measured every winged stride of the Votaress's approach toward the Third Chickasaw Bluff; observed—as earlier bidden by the actor—the strange pink and yellow stripes of the bluff's clay face, and recognized in the great bell's landing signal the sad business which had become so half-conscious a habit in the boat's routine.
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

The king, turning again to his minister, said: "We are not yet so poor as you seem to believe; our large golden dinner-set, the heirloom of our ancestors, was safely removed from Berlin, and is now here at Memel.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

"I don't pretend to fathom his motives, sir; but I don't believe it was for any such purpose as you seem to think."
— from The Deserter by Charles King

I have nothing further to add for the present, but husband well your time, cherish your instructors, strive to make everybody your friend; and be assured that nothing will be so pleasing as your success to, Dear Peter, Yours affectionately.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson