When Ursula in her purple cloak and pheasant's feather spoke her lines at the end of the third act, " I shall love you for a million years ," the house went wild.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Then he asked Sir Lancelot, “Was it from this maid who tendeth you so lovingly ye had the token?” “Yea,” said Sir Lancelot; “and would I could persuade her to withdraw her love from me.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

One young woman, who is especially brave and in good earnest, worked as a chambermaid on a lake steamer last year and hurried away this year to do the same.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Feel, masters, how I shake; look you, I warrant you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Quoth she, laughing, "You are too cruel towards lovers, an you desire of them only an ill end; [231] but, to obey you, I will tell a story of three who all ended equally ill, having had scant enjoyment of their loves.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Ama l'amico tuo con il diffetto suo —Love your friend with all his faults.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I shall leave you to guess what Mary I mean.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

“Well, if I were a swell like you,” she scoffed, “it would take a heap sight more than a drunken man munching pansies and rum and Bible texts to—to jolt me out of my limousines and steam-yachts and Adirondack bungalows.”
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, August, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

"Who is that little tot on the Arab so like your own?
— from Little Nobody by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

But the average day does not include losing ten thousand on the stock exchange from sheer folly, finding out that your blood pressure is too high, that your faithful secretary loves you and is truer blue than ever, and discovering at the same moment that you love her yet may not tell her so.
— from The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

She put her arm around him and said: "My boy, I shall very soon leave you.
— from Brooks's Readers, Third Year by Stratton D. (Stratton Duluth) Brooks

"I don't think I shall let you.
— from Red Hair by Elinor Glyn

"I was not there; I was two hundred miles to the sou'west, first mate of one of those old-fashioned, soft-pine, centerboard barkentines—three sticks the same length, you know—with the mainmast stepped on the port side of the keel to make room for the centerboard—a craft that would neither stay, nor wear, nor scud, nor heave to, like a decent vessel.
— from The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson

Sans tenir compte de l'ordre chronologique, nous allons mettre sous les yeux de nos lecteurs ce précieux document de notre histoire littéraire, qui nous semble avoir sa place marquée ici mieux que partout ailleurs.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

"Then I shall leave you four to welcome any new guests that come," said Dorothy; "for Button-Bright and I must look our very best at Ozma's banquet."
— from The Road to Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"Captain Truck," he said, with solemnity, "I acknowledge myself to be but an ignorant and inexperienced man, one who has passed his life on this lake, which, broad and beautiful as it is, must seem a pond in the eyes of a seaman like yourself, who have passed your days on the Atlantic----" "Atlantic!" interrupted the captain contemptuously, "I should have but a poor opinion of myself, had I seen nothing but the Atlantic!
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper

Prés de la Ville étoit un monastère, Fameux par son antiquité, Où des vierges vivoient dans une regle austere, Sous les yeux d'une Abbesse illustre en pieté
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault