“Porthos,” replied Aramis, “I have had the occasion to observe to you more than once that you are very indiscreet; and that is injurious to you among the women.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Late as the Dutch clock showed it to be, the poor woman was still hard at work at an ironing-table; a young child lay sleeping in a cradle near the fire; and another, a sturdy boy of two or three years old, very wide awake, with a very tight night-cap on his head, and a night-gown very much too small for him on his body, was sitting bolt upright in a clothes-basket, staring over the rim with his great round eyes, and looking as if he had thoroughly made up his mind never to go to sleep any more; which, as he had already declined to take his natural rest and had been brought out of bed in consequence, opened a cheerful prospect for his relations and friends.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

One arranged her flower-bed into the form of a whale; another thought it better to make hers like the figure of a little mermaid; but that of the youngest was round like the sun, and contained flowers as red as his rays at sunset.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Don't say things online that you would not have said in person.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

I know that of this you, at first, made some difficulty; but I had desired you to make these advances; it was natural I should acquit myself towards you, and this we concluded upon.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What was the use of going to London at that time of the year?
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Madame Maramballe was following her own train of thought: “You are not a peasant.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Fancy what a library an editor’s work would make, after twenty or thirty years’ service.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

But in representations so different both Tubero and Macer cite the linen books as their authority; neither of them denies that it was said by ancient historians that there were military tribunes on that year.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

“You may think more of her than I do,” remarked Norman, “and now, as I am not a baby, and do not care about dolls, won’t you show me some of the other things you talk of?”
— from Norman Vallery; or, How to Overcome Evil with Good by William Henry Giles Kingston

Happy in obtaining this amount, when our debtor might have left us only one hundred thousand, we hereby declare him an Aristides; we vote him a premium and crown of encouragement, and propose to leave him to manage his assets, giving him ten or twelve years in which to pay us the fifty per cent which he has been so good as to offer us.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The belief in the approaching dissolution of the world, which the clergy now again zealously preached, although not so universally entertained as that of the year 1000, was accompanied with results that were no less horrible.
— from The Infant's Skull; Or, The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium by Eugène Sue

For the first time after the restraints of girlhood and the restraints of marriage, a woman enjoys the sweets of liberty and undisputed possession of herself; she is freed from contact with the coarser nature of man, and above all from the fear of maternity, the haunting terror of the young wife of the present day.
— from The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Alphonse Daudet

I counted forty lakes from one standpoint an this mountain, and the views to the westward over the Illilouette Basin, the most superbly forested of all the basins whose waters rain into Yosemite, and those of the Yosemite rocks, especially the Half Dome and the upper part of the north wall, are very fine.
— from The Yosemite by John Muir

No, sir, I think they live right here on Groobe somewhere, maybe holed up in caves or something for ten or thirteen years ... but that wouldn't make sense, either, would it?
— from The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

You shall tread on the young of the lion’s den, [213]
— from A Few More Verses by Susan Coolidge

Their acquaintance, with that of their yellow-jacket bee and bumble-bee relatives, is forced upon most of us at a tender and impressionable age, and leaves a lasting reminiscence.
— from Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson