she cried, white to her lips "with rage, you will at once retract that rash vow or this house is no longer your home.
— from His Heart's Queen by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.
The king and queen first enter, to converse on the melancholy state of the prince, and the king takes the opportunity of lamenting that he is no longer young enough for so fair a consort.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek
Be sure that had I not loved you dearly I should never have taken this upon myself.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century
think you," she added, blushing crimson, "that had I loved any but you, that had I not loved you with my whole heart and being, I had lain thus on your bosom, thus endured your caresses?
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various
Aside from this, he is nothing like you at all.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
A view of this procession being the fondest ambition of the San Jose collegian, and especially interdicted and circumvented by the good Fathers attending the college excursions, Clarence felt for it the profound indifference of a boy who, in the intermediate temperate zone of fifteen years, thinks that he is no longer young and romantic!
— from A Waif of the Plains by Bret Harte
"Don't be hard on our boy, Cuthbert," said Densil; "he is a good boy, though he is not like you.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley
She never saw him again; but the night before his execution he wrote to her a letter with a piece of charcoal, with tender remembrances to all the family, and saying to her, 'I never liked your manner better than when you kissed me last; for I am most pleased when daughterly love and dear charity have no leisure to look to worldly courtesy.'
— from A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
It is queer that an old man cannot remember that he is no longer young.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Various
Von Swieten impatiently, "this house is no longer your home; you must go into the great world under very different auspices, worthy of your talents.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various
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