I recollate them now, for the press, in order to partially occupy and offset days of strange sickness, and the heaviest affliction and bereavement of my life; and I fondly please myself with the notion of leaving that cluster to you, O unknown reader of the future, as "something to remember me by," more especially than all else.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And, what we seek of you, of us requir’d.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

I see you are going to be a great comfort as well as a great credit to your old uncle, Rosy."
— from Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill by Louisa May Alcott

They were the youngest of us; ragged boys of ten and twelve, with sunburned hair, weather-stained faces, and pale blue eyes.
— from The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories by Willa Cather

When you’re sitting quiet with the Frenchman you’ll see your old uncle round the corner.”
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

Their antagonism was clearly apparent during their intercourse in Strassburg, and in the end, after many years of uneasy relations, their alienation became complete.
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

Love to the earl, and kind assurance to yourself of unalterable regard.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

Years might elapse before the final exposition, years of utter ruin to my prospects and my hopes.
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield

Lansdowne Circus, October 10th.—I returned hither from Liverpool last week, and have spent the time idly since then, reposing myself after the four years of unnatural restraint in the Consulate.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A wide metalled road ran past the three hotels, but it reminded you of unexplored rivers on an ancient map, which are traced for a score or a hundred miles, and then dissipate in interrogative dots.
— from Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

Nothing, indeed, testifies more strikingly to his naturally buoyant disposition than the fact that years of unvarying routine were unable to make of Prescott a formalist or to render him less charming as a social favourite.
— from William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

In fact, every science and art, all human thought, experience, and discovery had poured their treasure in one stream into the bosom of that society which, after forty-four years of undisputed rule, Augustus had consolidated into a new system of government, and bequeathed to the charge of Tiberius.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various