Looking above, he found that the young moon was up, and that the stars were beginning to shine in the sky from which the tones of red and yellow were flickering out, in favour of the calm blue of a summer night.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Whether wed Or widow, maid or mother, she can change her Mind like the wind: whatever she has said Or done, is light to what she 'll say or do;— The oldest thing on record, and yet new!
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Here the lady affected a laugh, and cried, “My dear lord, sure you know us better than to talk of reasoning a young woman out of her inclinations?
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Take other routes and you will get other arrangements.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

I love it; I revel in shaking off the trammels of respectability, as you know.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Then conversed they of religion, and ye mightie work ye old dead
— from 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain

When the train rocks back and forth and you try not to make eye contact with the other riders and you try not to read the ads for plastic surgery, bail bondsmen and AIDS testing, when you try to ignore the graffiti and not look too closely at the stuff in the carpeting.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

If you delay attack longer the mortifying spectacle will be witnessed of a rebel army moving for the Ohio River, and you will be forced to act, accepting such weather as you find.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

It is no use talking, therefore, of "red and yellow"—we must say what red and what yellow, and how much of each.
— from Stained Glass Work: A text-book for students and workers in glass by Christopher Whall

A person therefore may have affecting views of the things of religion, and yet be very destitute of spiritual light.
— from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards

On the other hand faint tinges of red and yellow in the east told of the coming morn.
— from Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

He is in the church, he hath the ordinances rightly administered, yet he wants the most part, till he find Jesus Christ in all these.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Mr. Bliss holds S. W. Dorsey up to scorn because he endeavored to turn two men out of the Cabinet on the testimony of Rerdell; and yet he is trying to put four men in the penitentiary on the same oath.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll

Their garments were so tight as to display 180 every outline of their lithe and graceful bodies; and in their hands these charming candlebearers held torches of red and yellow wax, such as were used in the churches.
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

But you mustn't think of resigning, as you call it, just as you are beginning to get the hang of sailoring.
— from Harper's Round Table, March 31, 1896 by Various

He had told her of his decision to stay and see the full development of the mine through, in spite of the wrench it cost him to think of remaining a year without a break.
— from The Brown Study by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond