1 This was about twelve leagues in circuit, all low land, yet verdant and containing abundance of trees of various sorts.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

So we had not been sure in any case about leaving Little Yeogh Wough at home; and when he pleaded to go with us on board the Peninsular and Oriental liner that was to take us and certain others on her maiden trip in the Baltic, we gave way far more easily than he might have expected.
— from Boy of My Heart by Marie Connor Leighton

I could at least love you always and feel that I need no longer wrong you.
— from The Crimson Patch by Augusta Huiell Seaman

lastly your Gréene, both for the naturall property belonging to your Garden, as also for better continuance and long lasting, you shall make of Camomill, well planted where any such colour is to be vsed, as for the rest of the colours, you shall sift them, and strow them into their proper places, and then with a flat beating-Béetell you shall beate it, and incorporate it with the earth, and as any of the colours shall decay, you shall diligently repaire them, and the luster will be most beautifull.
— from The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Gervase Markham

He had to wait a moment for the answer; but it came at last, low yet distinct: “I am very happy.”
— from The American by Henry James

"She—you came a little late you see—she did answer."
— from The Red House Mystery The Piccadilly Novels by Duchess

Why," he continues, a little later, "you ain't got no idea how light-minded the mill-girl is.
— from The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Van Vorst, John, Mrs.

What can a lad like you have to say to good old Sir Robert Darcy, that all the world might not know?"
— from The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

“I’ll come and live like you,” said he, “for I am getting too rich myself to go on as I’ve been doing.
— from Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Mayne Reid