'To-morrow you shall go out in your new clothes,' said her mother; and the little one looked up at her hat, and down at her frock, and smiled brightly.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Mark ye no coming shadow, Kings?
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Sea!——but what avails apostrophes?——with all your elements, wet or dry, ye never compounded so intoxicating a draught.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

“Yet are you not capricious, sir?” “To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts—when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break—at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent—I am ever tender and true.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

‘You naughty creature,’ said the lively lady, poking the peer with her parasol; ‘I won’t have you talk so.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

You and you no cross shall part; You and you are heart in heart; You to his love must accord, Or have a woman to your lord;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"You must own you are not quite at home in your new character," she said to me one day.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

NURSE: Why is she not young now? CHILD: She has grown old.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You never can sing but one note.”
— from The Golden-Breasted Kootoo, and Other Stories by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Rayless the gathering night Which settled o’er her soul engulfed in gloom: She turned away like one whose vacant sight All things can dimly see, yet naught can see aright.
— from Canadian Melodies and Poems by George E. (George Earle) Merkley

He had been reading them half the day, but feeling all the while that to read about things which you never can see is like hearing about a beautiful dinner while you are starving.
— from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

And listen, if my confinement comes on me and I worried as I was last year, nothing can save me.
— from Three Plays: The Fiddler's House, The Land, Thomas Muskerry by Padraic Colum

Take my word for it, everything happens for the best, and you may some day rejoice that you have undergone what you now consider so great a misfortune.”
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

long generations of ice and ocean fighters behind this brave, indomitable young Newfoundland captain seemed to be re-living in him the strenuous days that carried the flag of England 'round the world.
— from The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

You never can separate its workings from the complete operation of the entire nature.
— from Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King

"It's no use arguing with you, because you never can see that two and two make four.
— from Austin and His Friends by Frederic Henry Balfour

When his gaze again met Cade's, he quietly and soberly asked, "You mean like another bomb, don't you?" Nodding, Cade said, "You got it.
— from An Encounter in Atlanta by Ed Howdershelt