Nay, of their ancient renown, many and extensive are the traces and monuments still remaining; even their entrenchments upon either shore, so vast in compass that from thence you may even now measure the greatness and numerous bands of that people, and assent to the account of an army so mighty.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

We say Aramis, because the young man entertained no doubt that it was his friend who held this dialogue from the interior with the lady of the exterior.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

You know what follows: for abuses are thrown out by these brothers with great bitterness in every other verse; so that you may easily know them for the sons of Atreus, of that Atreus who invented a new punishment for his brother: I who his cruel heart to gall am bent, Some new, unheard-of torment must invent.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Use the following command (assuming that you must enter 0 to get a city line, and use tone signaling): ATDT0W4737031378
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

You know, I suppose, that you must escort me there?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' th' sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that; move still, still so, And own no other function.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Aiming, therefore, at such great things, remember that you must not allow yourself any inclination, however slight, toward the attainment of the others; but that you must entirely quit some of them, and for the present postpone the rest.
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus

Up and to my office, and there we sat all the morning, and at noon my wife being gone to Chelsey with her brother and sister and Mrs. Lodum, to see the wassell at the school, where Mary Ashwell is, I took home Mr. Pett and he dined with me all alone, and much discourse we had upon the business of the office, and so after dinner broke up and with much ado, it raining hard, which it has not done a great while now, but only frost a great while, I got a coach and so to the Temple, where discoursed with Mr. W. Montagu about borrowing some money for my Lord, and so by water (where I have not been a good while through cold) to Westminster to Sir W. Wheeler’s, whom I found busy at his own house with the Commissioners of Sewers, but I spoke to him about my Lord’s business of borrowing money, and so to my Lord of Sandwich, to give him an account of all, whom I found at cards with Pickering; but he made an end soon: and so all alone, he and I, after I had given him an account, he told me he had a great secret to tell me, such as no flesh knew but himself, nor ought; which was this: that yesterday morning Eschar, Mr. Edward Montagu’s man, did come to him from his master with some of the Clerks of the Exchequer, for my Lord to sign to their books for the Embassy money; which my Lord very civilly desired not to do till he had spoke with his master himself.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Those prisoners in your Highness’ name demanded, Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took, Were, as he says, not with such strength denied As is deliver’d to your Majesty: Either envy, therefore, or misprision Is guilty of this fault, and not my son.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Therefore you must enter a cavern and visit Pátála, and then return to your own body by a charm which I will teach you.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

“I can explain it to you more easily.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

but it was generally ‘A sonnet to your mistress’ eyebrows,’—some fair one who had conquered your heart for a week perhaps.”
— from The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various

Common trade is betweene Alexandria and Constantinople, and therefore you may easily procure the seeds.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

“I hope you will,” the young man exclaimed.
— from In White Raiment by William Le Queux

The obvious meaning is, provide early what may be required, that you may escape risk of failure and dearth.
— from Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser

" "It may be natural to you, Mr. Edwards," said Mrs. Harrison, "but you are wanting in that tenderness of manner so grateful, nay, so essential to the heart of a wife.
— from Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Why should the teachers and counselors of these young men encourage them in preparing themselves for professions which are already over-crowded and which bid fair, within the next ten years, to become still more seriously congested?
— from Analyzing Character The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life by Arthur Newcomb