For there is such a little time that your youth will last—such a little time.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Then the poor idiot, as the cretin was often called, looked at Rudy with a most touching expression in his eyes, clasped his hands, and said, solemnly and devoutly, "Saperli wants to send a letter to Jesus Christ, to pray Him to let Saperli die, and not the master of the house here.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"She asked leave to go away with her lover, and I let her.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The Shepherd searched a long time without finding any Wolves, but just as he was passing near a large cave on the mountain side, a huge Lion stalked out, carrying a Sheep.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

Terrified, at length, by the sight of some houses in flames, and by the threats of a general conflagration, the people yielded with a sigh, and left the virtuous but unfortunate Ulpian to his fate.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine:— Peace!—the charm's wound up.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

But the chief reason for not carrying out his intention to enter the army lay in the vague idea that he was L’russe Besuhof who had the number of the beast, 666; that his part in the great affair of setting a limit to the power of the beast that spoke great and blasphemous things had been predestined from eternity, and that therefore he ought not to undertake anything, but wait for what was bound to come to pass.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Late home to supper, a little troubled at my not going to Epsum to-morrow, as I had resolved, especially having the Duke of York and [Sir] W. Coventry out of town, but it was my own fault and at last my judgment to stay, and so to supper and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In one sense at least, the brotherhood of man stands revealed.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The choice of sides and the right of serving are left to the chance of toss, with the proviso that if the winner of the toss choose the right to serve, the other player shall have the choice of sides, or vice versa .
— from Home Amusements by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

“I was sore, Pen, when you handed me such a lecture, though it was coming to me all right.
— from Penny of Top Hill Trail by Belle Kanaris Maniates

Cleve with all its appurtenances, Julich, Berg and the rest, goes to the eldest Sister and her heirs, male or female: If she have no heirs, male or female, then, but not till then, the next Sister steps into her shoes in that matter: but if she have, then, we repeat for the sixth and last time, no Sister or Sister's Representative has the least word to say to it, but takes her 100,000 pounds, and ceases thinking of Cleve.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

50 Listen to St. Augustine: “Let the mind recall the threshing-floor containing straw and wheat; the nets in which are inclosed good and bad fish; the ark of Noah in which were clean and unclean animals, and you will see that the Church from
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

Also formerly, at the time this shameful deed was done to us we sent a letter to our lord, and unto Jehohanan, the high priest, and his associates, the priests who are in Jerusalem, and unto Ostan, the brother of Anani and the elders of Judah, but a letter they have not sent unto us.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of 7 hell than yourselves.
— from A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by A. T. Robertson

They are stored as TIFF files on an optical filing system that is composed of a database used for searching and locating the books and an optical jukebox that stores 64 twelve-inch platters.
— from Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992 by Library of Congress

"I hope I may never again see anything like that poor wretch's face when his palsied hands first touched the cards which I dealt him.
— from Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks

Science and Literature trying to play puss in the corner, while Fashion sweeps over the floor and catches their feet in her train.
— from The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner