As he spoke, he was dipping into his bag and producing the instruments for transfusion; I had taken off my coat and rolled up my shirt-sleeve.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Do you, while receiving benefits from me and resting under my shade, dare to describe me as useless, and unprofitable?”
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Thus Elizabeth endeavoured to divert her thoughts and mine from all reflection upon melancholy subjects.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme.
— from A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick by Jonathan Swift

I can't show it you without pulling off my coat and rolling up my sleeve.
— from The Lonely Stronghold by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

I pulled off my coat and rolled up my sleeves and went at my duty with my whole soul, like a man reaping and binding wheat, which caused the hireling priests to be very much surprised.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

“Aye, aye,” roared up Midshipman Stark, from his station at the wheel.
— from The Dreadnought Boys on a Submarine by John Henry Goldfrap

For though she a rum 'un might seem to the look, She was without doubt a most excellent cook; And could give fish and game such a delicate taste, That your platter you'd empty in double-quick haste, Nor a scrap, nor a morsel would e'er chance to waste.
— from The Anglican Friar, and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook A Comic Legend by active 19th century Novice

The rock, apparently, rested upon more solid ground farther back.
— from The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign; Or, the Struggle to Save a Nation by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

"Put me down as a subscriber, please, and rely upon my support at all times.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Yet in spite of all this he must be considered a really unfortunate man, since at the present time the greater part of his works have disappeared, having been destroyed in the siege of Florence, and also because his career was terminated in a very tragic manner; for being a quarrelsome man and liking turmoil belter than quiet, he happened one morning to say some very insulting words to an opponent at the tribunal of the Mercanzia, and that evening as he was returning home, he was dogged by this man and stabbed in the breast with a knife, so that in a few days he perished miserably.
— from The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Giorgio Vasari

You will accompany me home to-day and remain under my supervision.
— from The Sign of Flame by E. Werner