Being come, we up to the Duke of York’s chamber, who, when ready, we to our usual business, and being very glad, we all that signed it, that is, Sir J. Minnes, W. Batten, W. Pen, and myself, and
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But some other day when I've got time, be it ever so little, I shall deem it my duty to make up what remains by inditing a record of the Broad Vista Garden, as well as a song on my visit to my parents and other such literary productions in memory of the events of this day.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things; which has only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man’s business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be obliged, in proportion, to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

I should be very glad of a little assistance.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

"That was a narrow escape!" said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; "and now for the garden!"
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

If our "ego" is the only form of Being, according to which we make and understand all Being: very good!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Carneades, too, was a Babylonian by birth; and as there never was a people more jealous of admitting foreigners to public offices than the Athenians, their consideration for him must have been very great.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

We are resolved to convert the great hall into a theatre, and get up the Beaux Stratagem without delay—I think I shall make no contemptible figure in the character of Scrub; and Lismahago will be very great in Captain Gibbet.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

For though the quantity of precious productions for which he exchanges his whole revenue be very small, the number of workmen employed in collecting and preparing it must necessarily have been very great.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

That when he went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told the portress not to expect him that night.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The effect upon the excited multitude must have been very great.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

"Look you, little Marie, I should be very glad if you would go into the house for a little while before going on to Ormeaux: you're a shrewd girl, you have always shown that you have a keen mind, and you notice everything.
— from The Devil's Pool by George Sand

Now I begin to be very glad that I did not follow my own way, not only because I have done my duty, but because I have found a new cousin whom I mean to like very much."
— from Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life by Caroline Austin

Finding himself in a pitfall which he has digged with his own hands, he is like other men of his kind; he would be very glad to climb out upon the shoulders of a woman."
— from The Wreckers by Francis Lynde

But then I have to be very good and try to please Jesus, and mind what He says; and so I know He wants me to have love-charity for Mabel, and try to not care very much if she does things I don't like.
— from Belle Powers' Locket by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

" Similar good feeling, however, appears to have been very general between the French prisoners and the people of the many Border towns where the former were quartered—though it was almost too much to expect that no unpleasantnesses should ever occur, when we remember how great a bogie the Emperor Napoleon then was to the majority of British people, and how to hate the French was looked on as almost a virtue.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang

The proof of their progress in this science is afforded by the fact that almanacs, which were at first brought from China, have now become very general and are composed in Japan.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

"Certainly, I shall be very glad to help you," the young girl replied, with cheerful acquiescence.
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

“But then you might live in London, perhaps, instead of here; and I should be very glad if you were near us,” said Agnes, with a good deal of timidity.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

This mechanical action of nitrate can scarcely be very great when we remember the comparatively small quantity applied.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman