Can I be of any use?" "None, I thank you, unless you will give me the pleasure of your company the little way our road lies together.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

“Well, I won't let this chance to be revenged on Dave slip by unimproved, now I tell you.”
— from The Boy Trapper by Harry Castlemon

When you say, "Lead us not into temptation," you must in good earnest mean to avoid in your daily conduct those temptations which you have already suffered from.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston

Ah! surs, [Pg 472] I’m mighty tired of ut, now I tell ye!”
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

You allowed me that evening, in your uncle’s garden, to consider you mine; you cannot now of yourself break those ties which are common to both of us.—Ursula, need I tell you that I yesterday informed Monsieur du Rouvre that even if I were free I could not receive a fortune from a young person whom I did not know?
— from Ursula by Honoré de Balzac

The maid gave us no idea that you were entertaining.
— from The Prophet's Mantle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

I believe affection, attachment—whether to the one sex or the other—springs up normally in the youthful mind in a quite diffused, ideal, emotional form—a kind of longing and amazement as at something divine—with no definite thought or distinct consciousness of sex in it.
— from The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women by Edward Carpenter

If the master won, heavy tasks were imposed, but if, as more often happened, he was defeated in his efforts to regain his authority, he had to make terms with the boys as to the hours of work and play. {62} St. Thomas's Eve is in certain regions one of the uncanniest nights in the year.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

4 CONTENTS VOLUME I Introduction 5 Text: Books I, II 17 VOLUME II Text: Books III-V 9 Index Of Names 231 MAPS VOLUME I Introduction Summary of Chief Events Book I Preface The State of the Empire Galba's Position The Distribution of Forces The German Revolt and the Adoption of Piso Galba's Measures of Precaution The Rise of Otho The Fall of Galba Otho on the Throne Dramatis Personae The Rise of Vitellius The March of Valens' Column The March of Caecina's Column Otho's Government and the Distribution of Forces Otho's Plans Book II Vespasian and the East The Trial of Annius Faustus Otho's Measures of Defence The Decisive Struggle Vitellius' Principate The Revolt of Vespasian Vitellius in Rome 5 INTRODUCTION Tacitus held the consulship under Nerva in the year 97.
— from Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Cornelius Tacitus

Just as you can tell at sight whether certain persons attract or repel you, through some unknown, nameless influence that you are unable to fathom; so, in like degree, can you decide—that is, if you possess a naturally sensitive mind—whether they are drawn towards yourself or remain antipathetical.
— from She and I, Volume 1 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson