He cheerfully acquiesced in this, and I gave him the same time as before for reduction.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

SOON AFTER I GOT home that summer, I persuaded my grandparents to have their photographs taken, and one morning I went into the photographer’s shop to arrange for sittings.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Moreover, as it is of great help to fair dealing sometimes not to seize some honest gain, that you may accustom yourself as far as possible to flee from unjust gains, and as it makes greatly for virtue to abstain sometimes from your own wife, that you may not ever be tempted by another woman, so, applying the habit to curiosity, try not to see and hear at times all that goes on in your own house even, and if anyone wishes to tell you anything about it give him the go-by, and decline to hear him.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

My horror, therefore, was all the greater, when young Wilhelm Heine one day came to my room with the news that the scenery for Lohengrin had been suddenly countermanded, and instructions given him to prepare for another opera.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

You'll accept of that, for a pair of gloves, on this happy occasion; and I gave him ten guineas, and took his honest hand between both mine: God bless you, said I, with your silver hairs, so like my dear father!—I shall always value such a good old servant of the best of masters!—He said, O such goodness!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

In short, Her obliging behaviour to her equals, before her exaltation; her kindness to them afterwards; her forgiving spirit, and her generosity; Her meekness, in every circumstance where her virtue was not concerned; Her charitable allowances for others, as in the case of Miss Godfrey, for faults she would not have forgiven in herself; Her kindness and prudence to the offspring of that melancholy adventure; Her maiden and bridal purity, which extended as well to her thoughts as to her words and actions; Her signal affiance in God; Her thankful spirit; Her grateful heart; Her diffusive charity to the poor, which made her blessed by them whenever she appeared abroad; The cheerful ease and freedom of her deportment; Her parental, conjugal, and maternal duty; Her social virtues; Are all so many signal instances of the excellency of her mind, which may make her character worthy of the imitation of her sex.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

He also indicated George H. Thomas, D. C. Buell, and Burnside, as the other three.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

He's a cocky old guy, as you know, isn't afraid of any single thing on earth and it galls him to have me go along to play nursemaid.
— from Death Points a Finger by Will Levinrew

This was about Jim Wolfe and the cats; and I gave him that tale the morning after that memorable episode.
— from Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain

“And that he may be known,” continued the Englishman’s strange protector, “to the eye and to the ear, I place around him the white sash, and I give him the sacred watchword, ‘Peace to the Brave.’
— from Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Besides many other traits and qualities, definable and indefinable, Gorman had the power of assuming the appearance either of a burglar of the lowest type, or a well-to-do contractor or tradesman.
— from Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

But as each month slipped away it grew harder to escape; he was inevitably drawn on, and it was so easy to drift with the tide that he deferred the evil day as long as possible.
— from Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

Yes, he told me his whole history, and I gave him the address of your mother—once his wife.
— from Kathleen's Diamonds; or, She Loved a Handsome Actor by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

As I go home the ferry-boat may overturn and I may be drowned, the horse may run away and I may be killed.
— from The Weird Sisters: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by Richard Dowling

The society of the animal world lent its gracious consolation; the great horses, the ponderous oxen, the doves fluttering and cooing about the barnyard, the suckling calves, the playful colts, all came to him as to a friend, and in giving him their confidence and affection awakened his own.
— from The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss

The gentlemen are in great hurries, their heads and thoughts entirely taken up, and it is impossible they should be guarded enough against such little hawk's-eyed creatures as we were; and, therefore, they ought either never to put their pocket-books up at all, or to put them up more secure, or to put nothing of value into them.
— from The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe