I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another: every woman, according to the naturalists of that society, having eight eyes; viz.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Then, taking up one of these bullets, he said, These are cannon-shot, which your son Gargantua hath lately received by the treachery of your enemies, as he was passing before the wood of Vede.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Reading in Froissart the vow of a troop of young English gentlemen, to keep their left eyes bound up till they had arrived in France and performed some notable exploit upon us, I have often been tickled with this thought, that it might have befallen them as it did those others, and they might have returned with but an eye a-piece to their mistresses, for whose sakes they had made this ridiculous vow.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But there is another strain heard in Homer which may teach our youth endurance; and something may be learnt in medicine from the simple practice of the Homeric age.
— from The Republic by Plato

Since the will is the primary and radical element in human nature, and intellect merely supervenes as something secondary, people are more likely to believe that the opinion you express with so much vehemence is due to the excited state of your will, rather than that the excitement of the will comes only from the ardent nature of your opinion.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

"Come, Tess, open your eyes and smile."
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"The truth is, senora," replied Don Quixote, "that I do feel the loss of Sancho; but that is not the main cause of my looking sad; and of all the offers your excellence makes me, I accept only the good-will with which they are made, and as to the remainder I entreat of your excellence to permit and allow me alone to wait upon myself in my chamber."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Let the one party be your friends, the other your enemies; by trying to please both, you will have both opposed to you.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers

The expenses of funerals are so heavy that often years elapse before they can defray them.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

I have thought of you ever since I left you; I think of you every moment of my hours in the little chapel that alone brings me some strength, and I have seen far ahead of the pain of the present.
— from The Wasted Generation by Owen Johnson

I thought that once your eyes sought mine in the boat”—then as she saw him still standing awkward and silent, all her wild passion burst out—“Brice, Brice, I love you, I love you.
— from The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 by Louis Becke

So to our youthful eyes Joy and hope shone;
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

“I am not very fond of looking ridiculous for the amusement of my friends, though I would do a good deal to oblige you, Ermine,” said Sir Philip dryly.
— from The Third Miss St Quentin by Mrs. Molesworth

“Ay, ay, sir,” says the middy, and skips off at a round trot, obliging you either to adopt the same ungraceful mode of progression, or lose sight of him altogether, and have to wander about, feeling very much from home, until some officer passing takes pity on you and leads you to the wardroom.
— from Medical Life in the Navy by Gordon Stables

Oh, change but your faith, and I will raise you from your base state, exposed to insult and persecution, to be the favourite of a Sultan, with slaves to obey your every wish—power to protect your friends—in short, all, all that a king can offer, shall be yours!
— from The Arab's Pledge: A Tale of Marocco in 1830 by Edward Ledwich Mitford

What has Jack Jones to do with the turf, or you either?"
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various