They have come from the deep woods and the wild mountains and the desert sands and the polar snows only to do homage to my little Annie.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Further study in this direction has thrown much light on our great cultural institutions, such as religion, morality, law and philosophy, all of which Professor Freud has modestly formulated in this volume and thus initiated a new epoch in the study of racial psychology.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

And again, sir, for instance; should I, at the same time, have a great power of doing harm to myself?' Laughing and pressing her arm, he retorted: 'But still, again for instance; would you exercise that power?'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

At the office I was welcomed by my fellow employees, who for ten days had thought me lost in the Himalayan jungles.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

She went to the boot-room where her pattens had hung ever since her apotheosis; took them down, had their mildewed leathers blacked, and put them on as she had done in old times.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Teach me, dear sir, continued I, and pressed his dear hand to my lips, teach me some other language, if there be any, that abounds with more grateful terms; that I may not thus be choked with meanings, for which I can find no utterance.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

I told him, and lifted his dear hand to my lips, and said, O sir!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

I do also this day hear that my Lord Privy Seale do accept to go Lieutenant into Ireland; but whether it be true or no, I cannot tell.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"No," answered Lady Glenmore, "the only thing Lord Glenmore does not wish me to do, as a young married woman, is to receive young men as morning visitors, and I have no wish to disobey him; therefore Mr. Leslie Winyard has been included in the general order I gave to that effect."
— from The Exclusives (vol. 2 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

I see the blessed water I'd give my life to drink, held to my lips, only to have it snatched away!"
— from The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

And yet Creed tells me that he do hear that my Lord Cornbury [Henry, afterwards second Earl of Clarendon.] do say that his father do long for the coming of the Parliament, in order to his own vindication, more than any one of his enemies.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

It was at a cottage at Marion, owned by Dr. Handy, that Miss Lizzie Borden intended to spend her vacation, and this, coupled with the prominence of the physician, made the authorities feel particularly anxious to ascertain the personality of this “wild eyed man,” confident though they were that he was entirely innocent of any complicity in the tragedy at the Borden house.
— from The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders by Edwin H. Porter

In season or out, they didn't care; they thought only of doing honour to my line.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-01 by Various

Oh! for God’s sake, my dear husband, take my life.
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

Even Horne Tooke was not to stand in the pillory: ‘No, no, the dog has too much literature for that.’
— from Obiter Dicta: Second Series by Augustine Birrell