[Gently, in tears] How ugly you are now, Peter, how old you’ve grown!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If you return at an early hour from any place of amusement, invite your escort into the house upon your arrival there, and lay aside your bonnet and shawl.
— 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

The traveller said to him, "Undress yourself, and get into my bed."
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

You will not come out from this hall unless you are wiser.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Ayawg itugyan níya ang ímung kaugalíngun antis mu makasal, Don’t surrender yourself to him until you are married. -in-an n one to whom s.t. has been turned over.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There was only one process which could be depended on, and it was to get down and lift his rear around until his head pointed in the right direction, or take him under your arm and carry him to a part of the road which he could not get out of without climbing.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Think how useful you are going to make yourself to both of us, and you will soon be as happy, Laura, as the day is long.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

But when he was foolishly conceived to have unduly yielded an inch to French influence, there came instantly to his opponents the power of turning him out,—which his opponents were not slow to do.
— from Lord Palmerston by Anthony Trollope

Tim could not easily quell the indignation against money-making oppression which the tinker's tale had raised within him; and the plain man's plain reasoning, respecting the rights of the labouring poor, appeared to him uncontradictable; yet all his sympathies for the distressed yielded, at length, to the strength of his common sense, and the consciousness that, care as much as he might, he could not alter the state of the oppressed:— "The world is as it is ," said Tim to himself, mustering up as much wisdom as he was master of; "it has not been right this many a long year, if all that our forefathers said can be true: and, what's worse, one doesn't see much chance of its being speedily set to rights.
— from Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Cooper

There is no fault so great that true repentance cannot efface it, and I know that dear, gentle Marie will not be too hard upon you, although you well-nigh broke her heart.
— from Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders. Vol. 2 (of 2) by A. M. Donelan

Then, having based his exhortations on their own spiritual life, he exhorts the elders to diligence in the pastoral office: "Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in the which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed the Church of God, which He purchased with His own blood."
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

In ascending from the level meadows of the vale thick double mounds, heavily timbered with elm, hide the houses until you are actually in their midst.
— from The Amateur Poacher by Richard Jefferies

Man's nature is not more susceptible of pleasurable emotions than woman's, and, indeed, perhaps the finer delights, the more delicate enjoyments which she feels, are to him unknown; yet, as an equivalent, those very fine movements of the spirit, which are the source of so much delight, are often the cause of shadowy afflictions.
— from The Castle of Ehrenstein Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

thou art a handy wench; take the deer-skin that hangs up yonder and make thee brogues for thy feet, if so thou wilt.
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

Finally, I was snared, caged, trapped—door and window had been bolted upon me without any remonstrance on my part—and I was now some considerable time in the house, unsuspected, yet a prisoner.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 by Various

"Here the old lady took him up, 'You are so stingy, Mr. Rose, there is no bearing with you.
— from Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley

Set at one side of the range to heat, until you are ready to pour it into a deep dish.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland