“I am stupid and awkward, but let my name perish in ignominy!
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have but little more to say, sir, of his honesty.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Musulung ku sa ímung baligyà, Let me take a look at the things you are selling.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I now tell it to you —and I can scarcely expect you to put more faith in it than did the merry fishermen of Lofoden.” H2 anchor VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY AFTER THE very minute and elaborate paper by Arago, to say nothing of the summary in ‘Silliman’s Journal,’ with the detailed statement just published by Lieutenant Maury, it will not be supposed, of course, that in offering a few hurried remarks in reference to Von Kempelen’s discovery, I have any design to look at the subject in a scientific point of view.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

" "Had not you better let me take the job?" said Mr. Brown, significantly.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

pa- v [A; b] lend money with interest.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Besides by living more with each other, and to being
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

But, let me not be thought presumptuous, the darkness which hides our God from us, only respects speculative truths— it never obscures moral ones, they shine clearly, for God is light, and never, by the constitution of our nature, requires the discharge of a duty, the reasonableness of which does not beam on us when we open our eyes.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Cle . ( aside to Angélique ). Don't refuse, pray; but let me explain to you what is the scene we must sing.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

It was commenced in 1500, but Lord Marney died before the work was done.
— from What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association by Gordon Home

In the Dumb Knight, by Lewis Machin, 1608, Prate, the orator, cautions his wife thus:—“I would not have you to step into the suburbs, and acquaint yourself 158 either with monsters or motions ; but holding your way strictly homeward, show yourself still to be a rare housewife.”
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

Lyties and Shentilmans, I see zere is von among us who is a brofessional like myself, and knows how all my leedle dricks is done.
— from Voces Populi by F. Anstey

a commonplace written on the head of all copybooks, but let me remind you that in the Christian life, as much as in any other, that virtue is needful, and unless a man is content to do as Abraham Lincoln said, 'Keep pegging away' at the duties of Christian life with continual effort, there is no promise and no possibility that that man shall grow in grace.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

The team wagons and other vehicles which frequented the road, and whose motions were as methodical as those of the planets—the tavern being the sun of their system—produced no emotions in the minds of these idlers, like the unexpected appearance of an [Pg 44] unknown body like myself, coming no one knew whence, and going no one could tell where.
— from Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department by James Holbrook

Julia Wetheral now belonged to Lord Ennismore, and her brilliant light must soon disappear from their hemisphere: she was going to throw herself away, they affirmed, upon a fellow unworthy of such a prize.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 1 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

“But let me help, Annie Laurie.”
— from Annie Laurie and Azalea by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Boswell, at his request, composed the ‘prologue;’ the verses, now unhappily irrecoverable, were described by Lord Mansfield as “witty and conciliating.”
— from Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations by James Boswell

But let me hope that nothing unpleasant has caused this late visit.”
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds