Yet some there were, among the sounder few Of those who less presum'd, and better knew, Who durst assert the juster ancient cause, And here restor'd Wit's fundamental laws.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Its ports and harbors are better known, from the concourse of merchants for the purposes of commerce.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

“Copper’s child is a boy,” Kennon said mildly.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Other speakers throw out a still lighter anchor by keeping before them a rather full outline of their written and committed speech.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

When first arrested, Burch was much excited, exhibiting the utmost fear and alarm, and before reaching the justice's office on Louisiana Avenue, and before knowing the precise nature of the complaint, begged the police to permit him to consult Benjamin O. Shekels, a slave trader of seventeen years' standing, and his former partner.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Wà makalugwà ang bítuk kay giundángan ang pagpurga, The intestinal worms didn’t come out because he stopped taking his medicine.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Wait a bit, Karamazov, you will know something in a minute.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A person at Báft, who had once gone to Kerbelá viâ Kermánsháh and Baghdád, recognised my sketch of tree and fruit immediately, having seen oak and acorn between Kermánsháh and Qasr-i-Shírín on the Baghdád road."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

After a long and burning kiss, she arose, and with features of the hue of death, but without even a tear in her feverish eye, she turned away, and added, to the savage, with all her former elevation of manner: “Now, sir, if it be your pleasure, I will follow.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

By and by to a Committee for the Fishery, the Duke of Yorke there, where, after Duke was made Secretary, we fell to name a Committee, whereof I was willing to be one, because I would have my hand in the business, to understand it and be known in doing something in it; and so, after cutting out work for the Committee, we rose, and I to my wife to Unthanke’s, and with her from shop to shop, laying out near L10 this morning in clothes for her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

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— from The Red Cross Girls in Belgium by Margaret Vandercook

Before sallying forth from Gloucester, for Beachley, a girl—a beautiful girl—had all but knelt at his feet, entreating him to take Monmouth.
— from No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

On rare occasions Edward was not without touches of a brave kingly nature.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He now saw the absurdity of his prejudices, and begged Kumodini Babu to forget his unbrotherly conduct.
— from Tales of Bengal by S. B. Banerjea

"By God's truth," admitted Buktiyar Khân grudgingly, "the Hindu is not such a blockhead as I deemed him.
— from The Mercy of the Lord by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Sort of a blue kind of light.
— from Dave Dawson with the Pacific Fleet by Robert Sidney Bowen

A bad knot called a “granny” is one which slips when you pull hard, or which gets jammed so tight that you cannot untie it.
— from Scouting for Girls Adapted from Girl Guiding by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

He had hoped no one knew him on Cassylia and was looking forward to a big kill at the Casino.
— from Deathworld by Harry Harrison

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— from The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. (Richard Brodhead) Westbrook

But one said, "Why weepest thou Here in God's heaven— Is it not fairer than soul can see?" "'Tis fair, ah!—- but keepest thou Not me depriven Of some one—somewhere—who needeth most me?
— from Plays and Lyrics by Cale Young Rice