Partly on the ground I have assigned perhaps, partly because from my having no visible calling or business, it is rightly judged that I must be living on my private fortune; I am so classed by my neighbours; and by the courtesy of modern England I am usually addressed on letters, &c., “Esquire,” though having, I fear, in the rigorous construction of heralds, but slender pretensions to that distinguished honour; yet in popular estimation I am X. Y. Z., Esquire, but not justice of the Peace nor Custos Rotulorum.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

“birds”; a = in this aviary; b = living on mince-pies; c = my; d
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Such a burden to be left on my hands—and so much annoyance as she caused me, daily and hourly, with her incomprehensible disposition, and her sudden starts of temper, and her continual, unnatural watchings of one’s movements!
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

] Egyptians, characterised by love of money, 4. 435 E .
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

When I had listened to all that they had to tell, I began to walk up and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan of campaign.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

With whatever sophistry all this may be covered over, it is certain that if any constraint can be laid on my will, I am no longer free, and that I am no longer master of my own property, if any one else can lay a hand on it.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every person about him, and a great part likewise of the senate, he secured by loans of money at low interest, or none at all; and to all others who came to wait upon him, either by invitation or of their own accord, he made liberal presents; not neglecting even the freed-men and slaves, who were favourites with their masters and patrons.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar by Suetonius

But looking on my left hand, I saw a horse walking softly in the field; which my persecutors having sooner discovered, was the cause of their flight.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

I turned to Jim, a big load off my mind.
— from Believe You Me! by Nina Wilcox Putnam

Everything in that dwelling spoke of ease and wealth, and no banqueting-hall could be more brightly lighted or more richly decked than that where the old man welcomed us on the threshold; and yet, how well soever the hearth was piled or the stove heated, a chill breath seemed to blow there.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

Nothing of the sort occurred, however, and I awoke this morning with the feeling that a black nightmare had been lifted off me.
— from The Parasite: A Story by Arthur Conan Doyle

ot a bit like other men.
— from Patty Blossom by Carolyn Wells

**** The bull-horned, snake-wreathed god,(v) the god who, when bound, turns into a bull (618); who manifests himself as a bull to Pentheus (920), and is implored by the chorus to appear "as bull, or burning lion, or many-headed snake" (1017-19), this god is the ancient barbarous deity of myth, in manifest contrast with the artistic Greek conception of him as "a youth with clusters of golden hair, and in his dark eyes the grace of Aphrodite" (235, 236).
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

30 The locality from which I collected these specimens I have named the Betulites locality, on account of the abundance of birch leaves of many varieties which have been found there.
— from The Life of a Fossil Hunter by Charles H. (Charles Hazelius) Sternberg