Will you go out on the terrace and look at the sunset?
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

Not but there are passages,—like that, for instance, where Joseph is made to refuse a pittance to a poor relation,—incongruities which Sheridan was forced upon by the attempt to join the artificial with the sentimental comedy, either of which must destroy the other—but over these obstructions Jack's manner floated him so lightly, that a refusal from him no more shocked you, than the easy compliance of Charles gave you in reality any pleasure; you got over the paltry question as quickly as you could, to get back into the regions of pure comedy, where no cold moral reigns.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The king, who had a much better understanding, dismissing his learned men, sent for the farmer, who, by good fortune, was not yet gone out of town; having therefore first examined him privately, and then confronted him with me and the young girl, his majesty began to think that what we had told him might possibly be true.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Ed said if you take the Mississippi on a rise when the Ohio is low, you'll find a wide band of clear water all the way down the east side of the Mississippi for a hundred mile or more, and the minute you get out a quarter of a mile from shore and pass the line, it is all thick and yaller the rest of the way across.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Whom have you got o’ board?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

And adde to these retired Leasure, That in trim Gardens takes his pleasure; 50 But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation, And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will daign a Song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her Dragon yoke, Gently o're th'accustom'd Oke; 60 Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly Most musical!, most melancholy! Thee Chauntress oft the Woods among I woo to hear thy eeven-Song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven Green, To behold the wandring Moon, Riding neer her highest noon, Like one that had bin led astray Through the Heav'ns wide pathles way; 70 And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The following charm is recited in order to “neutralise” his evil influence:— Peace be with you, grandson of the Spectre Huntsman, Whose Dwelling-place is a solitary patch of primeval forest, Whose Chair is the nook between the buttresses (of trees), Whose Leaning-post the wild Areca-palm, Whose Roof the (leaves of the) Tukas, Whose Body-hairs are leaves of the Rĕsam, Whose Mattress leaves of the Lerek, Whose Swing the (tree) Mĕdang Jĕlawei, And whose Swing-ropes are Malacca-cane-plants The Gift of His Highness Sultan Bĕrumbongan, Who dwelt at Pagar Ruyong, In the House whose posts were heart of the Tree-nettle, Whose threshold a stem of Spinach, Strewn over with stems of the Purut-purut, Whose Body-hairs were inverted, And whose Breasts were four in number, To whom belonged the Casting-net for Flies, And whose drum was “headed” with the skins of lice.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

“I am sorry to hear all this, as if peace is not made your situation will become worse, for as you go on your needs will become greater.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It will be seen from the diagram how a square piece of flooring may be paved with sixty-two square tiles of the eight colours violet, red, yellow, green, orange, purple, white, and blue (indicated by the initial letters), so that no tile is in line with a similarly coloured tile, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

There are lots of waste ground by the side of the roads in every village, amounting often to village greens, where feed the pigs and ganders of the people; and these roads are old-fashioned, homely roads, very dirty and badly made, and hardly endurable in winter, but still pleasant jog-trot roads running through the great pasture-lands, dotted here and there with little clumps of thorns, where the sleek kine are feeding, with no fence on either side of them, and a gate at the end of each field, which makes you get out of your gig (if you keep one), and gives you a chance of looking about you every quarter of a mile.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

But say, won't you go out first with me?
— from The Shadow by Mary White Ovington

“Yes, go on, father, I know what you mean.”
— from The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

" "Yah!" growled Orion.
— from Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod by James A. Cooper

Two or three young girls of fifteen or sixteen years of age the naturalist excepted from his generally ungallant expressions of disgust.
— from Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Scott, Ernest, Sir

“Ye serpents,” “ye generation of vipers,” are some of the phrases; and the words, “fools,” “blind hypocrites,” mingle again and again with the far-sounding, judicial menace, “Woe, woe unto you.”
— from Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Isaac Massey Haldeman

However, dear Marie, our next journey must be long and fatiguing: would it not be better for you to stay here to-night, and take as much repose as you can obtain before you go on?"
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 2 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Now of late years the book has come to light which tells the whole history of Achiacharus (or Ahikar, as we shall call him), and you will see as you go on that in the Book of Tobit some mistakes have been made in the names, and that instead of Aman we shall have to read Nadan, and instead of Manasses, Achiacharus.
— from Old Testament Legends Being stories out of some of the less-known apocryphal books of the Old Testament by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

You get on a boat.
— from Gigolo by Edna Ferber