And they did in fact at that time create a very great and mighty movement; uniting with the ever-flowing stream in stirring up and violently shaking the courses of the soul, they completely stopped the revolution of the same by their opposing current, and hindered it from predominating and advancing; and they so disturbed the nature of the other or diverse, that the three double intervals (i.e. between 1, 2, 4, 8), and the three triple intervals (i.e. between 1, 3, 9, 27), together with the mean terms and connecting links which are expressed by the ratios of 3:2, and 4:3, and of 9:8—these, although they cannot be wholly undone except by him who united them, were twisted by them in all sorts of ways, and the circles were broken and disordered in every possible manner, so that when they moved they were tumbling to pieces, and moved irrationally, at one time in a reverse direction, and then again obliquely, and then upside down, as you might imagine a person who is upside down and has his head leaning upon the ground and his feet up against something in the air; and when he is in such a position, both he and the spectator fancy that the right of either is his left, and the left right.
— from Timaeus by Plato

'Let us do as you say.'
— from Laws by Plato

When they had entered the room, the old woman said, "You might have spared yourself the long walk, if you had not three years ago unjustly driven away your child, who is so good and lovable.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Kill us, despise us, pursue us, do as you will, but we can no longer conceal it from you.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

That will be in regular course; let us do as you say.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“Give it up, drop all your foolishness for once in your life!”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

MEGILLUS: Excellent, Cleinias; let us do as you say.
— from Laws by Plato

These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,) These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart, While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city, Day upon day and year upon year O city, walking your streets, Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time refusing to give me up, Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces; (O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries, see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

I flew to the rescue and hauled you all three out before much harm was done, and your mother, who had seen it all from the upstairs window, came down and picked you up, dripping as you were, and gave you a beautiful spanking.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Nevertheless, if the desire possesses you of putting yourself under discipline at your age, and of deciphering the formidable alphabet of the sages, come to me; ‘tis well, I will make the effort.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

It is just my own experience; I was ill, unconscious, delirious, anything you please; but it is just a blessed fact for me, for all that, a gift from God.
— from Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson

Here surely is a field that urgently demands a young priest's activities.
— from The Young Priest's Keepsake by Michael J. Phelan

You know, my dear Cooke, I could have cured you of your rheumatism had you possessed common-sense; but who could cure any man who guards his person against the elements by such a ludicrous and unsubstantial dress as yours?”
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

Peggy is the one under discussion and you know where she comes from and who she is.
— from Peggy Stewart at School by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

Let's go and order it at Fubsby's.” “Darling, if you don't mind the expense, and it will be any relief to you, let us do as you wish,” Rosa said; and she put on her bonnet, and they went off to the grand cook and confectioner of the Brobdingnag quarter.
— from A Little Dinner at Timmins's by William Makepeace Thackeray

He was convinced of Neville’s innocence of any part in the ugly disappearance; and yet so many little circumstances combined so wofully against him, that he dreaded to add two more to their cumulative weight.
— from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

Said Poll, "My dear boy, it's now our turn; The world's upside down, as you have to learn."
— from The World Turned Upside Down by Ellen C. (Ellen Creathorne) Clayton

He talked something about ‘until death do us part’; and old Victor especially remembered that at one place Dave took her by the shoulder with his great paw and almost shook her as he said: ‘Even unto death are you mine, and I would rise from the grave to claim you.’
— from Lost Face by Jack London