You may amuse yourself with Shakespeare, or Milton, or Don Quixote, or any of our modern authors that are worth reading, such as the Adventures of Loveill, Lady Frail, George Edwards, Joe Thompson, Bampfylde Moore Carew, Young Scarron, and Miss Betsy Thoughtless; and if you have a taste for drawing, I can entertain you with a parcel of prints by the best masters.” A man of our hero's politeness could not help expressing himself in the warmest terms of gratitude for this courteous declaration.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

‘Do I constantly entreat you,’ said Mrs. Steerforth, ‘to speak plainly, in your own natural manner?’ ‘Oh!
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

And of later time in the parish church, Constances Bennet, a Greek born: he gave two houses, the one in St. John’s street, the other in Turnmill street; the rents of them to be distributed in coals every year against Christmas to the poor of that parish.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

We then talked of other matters till we reached home, though it was not without difficulty I could even yet keep him quiet.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

In the meanwhile, I have no doubt I can employ you to good account, and give you more insight into business than Pouncet could.
— from The House on the Moor, v. 2/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Whatever military engineering work is required is therefore done as a civil work by the Public Works Department, and all Royal Engineer officers virtually work as civilians, except in the event of war, when those required are at once ordered off to join the army; and though doubtless an officer’s knowledge of military details may be considerably weakened by his long absence from military duty in civil employment, yet the very nature of that employment engenders a quickness and fertility of resource and a sense of responsibility which go far to compensate for that deficiency, and the men who blew in the Cashmere Gate at Delhi, and laid out the defences of the Lucknow Residency, at any rate found their knowledge of military engineering sufficient for the purpose.
— from India and Indian Engineering. Three lectures delivered at the Royal Engineer Institute, Chatham, in July 1872 by J. G. (Julius George) Medley

'Go back, my good fellow,' said Colonel Harding; 'and if the day is clear enough, you will find all your things where you left them.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

There, God bless you, Rose; you have been very affectionate, very sweet to me, but I do, I confess, envy you that cheerful countenance—cheerful and calm.
— from Turns of Fortune, and Other Tales by Hall, S. C., Mrs.

What you have told us just now, does it cover everything you told me off the record?
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"A certain number of deaths is caused every year by the contagion of puerperal fever, communicated by the nurses and medical attendants.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A certain number of deaths is caused every year by the contagion of puerperal fever, communicated by the nurses and medical attendants.” Farr, in Fifth Annual Report of Registrar-General of England, 1843.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes