These two families were on terms of great intimacy, and I myself likewise enjoyed the pleasure of their friendship for many a day."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Yes, I came here young, and in my prime; and I must leave it in age and poverty.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Already in modern life, and more and more as it progressively improves, command and obedience become exceptional facts in life, equal association its general rule.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

With him we two sang afterward in Mr. Lilly’s study.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I wrote him the next day the following letters, copies of which are in my letter-book; but his to me were mere notes in pencil, not retained.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Presently he turned, without seeing me, and placed his foot absently in my lap.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

But as I have the Latin, which is the original and is more lucid, by me, I will translate from that.[7] "Not only at Peking, but in this capital also (Nanking) there is a College of Chinese Mathematicians, and this one certainly is more distinguished by the vastness of its buildings than by the skill of its professors.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Oh, the number of foreign schools I have been at in my life!
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

And I, my lord. DON PEDRO.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Respectful awe is more like it," the baron grunted.
— from The Ties That Bind by Walter M. Miller

There are some striking examples in history and in medical literature of bradycardia or persistent slow pulse in persons who are able to accomplish a large amount of work and whose general health and capacity for accomplishment were not at all disturbed by this physical condition.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Even although I might love a bad man, I would never marry him."
— from The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking

There are monstrous fish on the Coasts or Sea of Norway , of unusual Names, though they are reputed a kind of Whales; and, if men look long on them they will fright and amaze them.
— from Curious Creatures in Zoology by John Ashton

These are, indeed, more like torrents, and like the dry brooks of the Missouri, merely serve to carry off the vast quantities of water which fall in the plains, and bring them also a great deal of mud, which contributes to the muddiness of the Yellowstone.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

After dinner Furay and I rode six miles beyond this, on the road to Nashville, to the house of a Union farmer whose acquaintance I made last spring.
— from The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty

There would be no need to mention these trivialities, but that they actually influenced many lives, as trifles will in the world, where a gnat often plays a greater part than an elephant, and a mole-hill, as we know in King William's case, can upset an empire.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

This poor man had some assistance forwarded to him by benevolent persons, after his case had appeared in my letter in the Morning Chronicle .
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

Then later Ruth asked me what did I think about it—— Mr. Liebeler .
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

but I was never more taken aback in my life.
— from The Terms of Surrender by Louis Tracy