No, if you please, let me go first, that if there be any danger, I may be first therein, because by my means we are both gone out of the way.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

The pronunciation may be indicated in parentheses, as Mt. Vernon ( Maŭnt Vernon ), Roberto Bruce ( Brus ), Martinique ( Martinik' ), etc. Vocabulary.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

4 the effect which the growth of the lobe, a , produces upon the form of the neck of the bladder becomes more marked, and the part presenting perforations, e e , produced by instruments, indicates that by its shape it became an obstacle to the egress of the urine as well as to the entrance of instruments.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

And will give you the two diamond rings, and two pair of ear-rings, and diamond necklace, that were bought by my mother, to present to Miss Tomlins, if the match that was proposed between her and me had been brought to effect: and I will confer upon you still other gratuities, as I shall find myself obliged, by your good behaviour and affection.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

And also in the countries where I have been, be many more diversities of many wonderful things than I make mention of; for it were too long thing to devise you the manner.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

So to visit Sir W. Pen, and then to the office, and there late upon business by myself, my wife being sick to-day.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

After dinner to my papers and Tangier accounts again till supper, and after supper again to them, but by my mixing them, I know not how, my private and publique accounts, it makes me mad to see how hard it is to bring them to be understood, and my head is confounded, that though I did sweare to sit up till one o’clock upon them, yet, I fear, it will be to no purpose, for I cannot understand what I do or have been doing of them to-day.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I felt the steel tear into my chest, all went black before me, my head whirled in dizziness, and I felt my knees giving beneath me.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

"No, if you please, let me go first; that, if there be any danger, I may be first therein, because by my means we are both gone out of the way."
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

It is very true that when I determine to select book “A” from my library, that book “B” may not have been before my mind, and that I did not knowingly determine to reject it.
— from The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace

"I have begun by making myself agreeable to your wife," the doctor remarked with a self-approving grin.
— from Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

As soon as you have broken the seal which locks the aperture of this globe, and inhaled the escaping solar powder, you will in this room discover one or more creatures resembling women by the system of curved outlines forming their bodies, but much more beautiful than was ever any woman, and who are in fact Salamanders.
— from The Queen Pedauque by Anatole France

Emil did his best, but mortal man was helpless there, and he could only turn his haggard face from the pitiless sky, that dropped no rain for their thirst, to the boundless sea where no sail appeared to gladden their longing eyes.
— from Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

After this welcome rest we resumed our march next morning, but before many miles were accomplished, the waggons in front came to a stand-still at the foot of a steep short hill.
— from Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 by William Ross King

I have already considered, and believe that the latter course would be the best; but my Marian has every right to guide me."
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

It brought back many memories of the past.
— from The Socialist by Guy Thorne

At intervals, some glimpses of such a fate had been before my mind’s eye; but, as I have already stated, the stronger agony eclipsed the weaker, and rendered it almost uncared for.
— from The Boy Tar by Mayne Reid