Spake you not these words plain: ‘Sirrah knock me here, rap me here, knock me well, and knock me soundly’?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Ang karga mualkansi sa lutaw sa sakayan, The cargo lessens the amount of freeboard which the boat has.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I didn’t know what was up and Alf kept making signs out of the door.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

how Colvill talks of the businesse of publique revenue like a madman, and yet I doubt all true; that nobody minds it, but that the King and Kingdom must speedily be undone, and rails at my Lord about the prizes, but I think knows not my relation to him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Then she turned round, and said to me, in a kind, mild, sorrowful tone— “You see, my dear, turbans are worn.”
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Buford was a kind master, sheriff of the county, and in those days a man of wealth.
— 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

He smiled, and, kissing me, said, I took notice, Pamela, of what you observed, that you have none of your own sex with you; I think it is a little hard upon you; and I should have liked you should have had Miss Darnford; but then her sister must have been asked; and I might as well make a public wedding: which, you know, would have required clothes and other preparations.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

A. Kuhn, Märkische Sagen und Märchen (Berlin, 1843), p. 387, § 93.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer

“Ay?” said the old woman with a kind motherly smile: “it’s a lang way to Lunnon, a lang way, ay.
— from Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Could it be that a man who had dwelt long among ashes knew most surely the worth of the flame?
— from The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell

Those {112} escaping from a fire, or passing through a severe panic of any kind may sustain all manner of injuries without being aware of them.
— 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 a king must sometimes work.
— from Deborah: A tale of the times of Judas Maccabaeus by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow

"He took off the cap and bowed low" Hec and Duke ... sticking daisies on to a thorn "If peoples interrumpt, I wish they'd finish their interrumpting, and not stop in the middle" "The darling," said Hoodie ecstatically Hec refused to be comforted "Please 'agive me and kiss me" "Slowly and cautiously, whistling softly all the time" "Oh dear," she exclaimed.
— from Hoodie by Mrs. Molesworth

Waiting men in long procession brought the viands—venison and peacocks, pasties of all kinds, mutton, spitted small birds, wheaten bread—a multitude of matters.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston

Abide in me; o'ershadow by Thy love Each half-formed purpose and dark thought of sin; Quench, ere it rise, each selfish, low desire, And keep my soul as Thine, calm and divine.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston