In the heel?-- In the heart, your ribbon blue below?-- In the hip, and make you kneel?
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

'Once, and only once more,—say within a year, but it may be much sooner,—I may speak to you again on this subject, for the last time.' 'Not to press me to alter my right determination,' replied Rose, with a melancholy smile; 'it will be useless.' 'No,' said Harry; 'to hear you repeat it, if you will—finally repeat it!
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

"Wrongfully, then, have you respected me," said Paul Petrovitch with a sad smile.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Meanwhile, I suppose I ought to hear you read aloud half an hour each day.”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Thus forced to kneel, thus grovelling to embrace The scourge and ruin of my realm and race; Suppliant my children's murderer to implore, And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore!"
— from The Iliad by Homer

It is impossible for me to excuse the perversity that holds you responsible for consequences which neither you nor I could imagine or foresee.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

This plateau varies in width from ten to three hundred yards; reaching from the river-bank to a wall, fifty feet high, which extends, in an infinity of curves, but following the general direction of the river, until lost in the distance to the westward.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

No church there has yet raised its spire; and as if the jealous spirit of Woden still haunted his ancient temple, even the conventicle scarcely dares show its humble front in some obscure corner.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

‘Not to press you to alter your determination,’ pursued the young man, ‘but to hear you repeat it, if you would.
— from Cruikshank's Water Colours by William Harrison Ainsworth

Temptations have come to their Doors and called them forth; the Contagion of Rebellion hath broken out among their Neighbours; they have yet remained quiet, and continued untainted; still loyal to their Sovereign, amenable to Government, and submissive to Law, through a long and trying Succession of about seventy Years, they have scarce appeared to repine in the midst of their Calamities.
— from An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland by Henry Brooke

"Yes, it's a talent, a fine art; but you've got to have your root in the soil, Hermia—unless you're an orchid."
— from Madcap by George Gibbs

The following extract of a letter to Mr. Roscoe, dated 25th November, 1789, shows his feelings upon the subject:— "You are not surely serious when you desire to have your remarks on Cowper's Iliad burnt; whatever they contain upon the specific turn of language is just; many observations are acute, most elegant: though, perhaps, I cannot agree to all; for instance, the word rendered murky is not that which, in other passages, expresses the negative transparency of water: it means, I believe, in the text, [73] a misty appearance: this depended on a knowledge of the Greek.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 1 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

CLOUET, FRANÇOIS, ELIZABETH OF AUSTRIA, WIFE OF CHARLES IX (LOUVRE) Holbein executed portraits of many of the prominent nobility of England, and after two happy years returned to Basel, taking to Erasmus the sketch of More's family, which is still to be seen in the gallery of that city, being indeed one of the precious treasures of it.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh