Since then the Avonlea church had enjoyed a variety of religious dissipation in listening to the many and various candidates and “supplies” who came Sunday after Sunday to preach on trial.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

do I live to see't?—
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

However, all the things indispensable to be said are said, and all the things indispensable to be done are done (including Lady Tippins's yawning, falling asleep, and waking insensible), and there is hurried preparation for the nuptial journey to the Isle of Wight, and the outer air teems with brass bands and spectators.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Having taken leave of my old friends and companions, on the 18th of June, accompanied by the doctor, I left that spot of the world, and went southward above twenty miles along the river.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Nor did I look towards Wemmick until I had finished all I had to tell, and had been for some time silently meeting Mr. Jaggers's look.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

“For then we have need of pleasure when we grieve, because pleasure is not present; but when we do not grieve, then we have no need of pleasure; and on this account, we affirm, that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily; for we have recognized this as the first good, being connate with us; and with reference to it, it is that we begin every choice and avoidance; and to this we come as if we judged of all good by passion as the standard; and, since this is the first good and connate with us, on this account we do not choose every pleasure, but at times we pass over many pleasures when any difficulty is likely to ensue from them; and we think many [471] pains better than pleasures, when a greater pleasure follows them, if we endure the pain for a time.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

The form of the locative in these declensions is like the genitive singular, and its use is limited to names of towns and small islands, domī , at home , and a few other words.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

It was done in less than a minute somehow.
— from Corleone: A Tale of Sicily by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Though the fashionable and urbane remained dominant in letters through the age of Dryden, the forces of morality were rallying, and after 1688 the court (with which Blackmore was connected) threw its weight on the side of virtue.
— from Essay upon Wit by Blackmore, Richard, Sir

I mean no disrespect in linking this decision of the Mayor with that of the Supreme Court of one of our great Western States.
— from Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills by Virgil M. (Virgil McClure) Harris

I thought of that sweet-lipped, luscious-smiling queen as I parted from my wife for a few brief hours: royal and deeply injured lady though she was, she merited her fate, for she was treacherous—there can be no doubt of that.
— from Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten by Marie Corelli

This beauty, in the blossom of my youth, When my first fire knew no adulterate incense, Nor I no way to flatter, but my fondness; In all the bravery my friends could show me, In all the faith my innocence could give me, In the best language my true tongue could tell me, And all the broken sighs my sick heart lent me, I sued and served: long did I love this lady, Long was my travail, long my trade to win her; With all the duty of my soul, I served her.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Why, your husband says he mesmerized the child," replied the doctor, incautiously letting the secret drop.
— from Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark

I had laid my route by way of Upsala with the intention of inviting, as I had done in Lund, the students of the University to attend my concert, cherishing the fond hope that the cultivated young men at Sweden’s first [137] University would kindly receive, through me, a musical greeting from the brother–land, and give me their approbation.
— from Ole Bull: A Memoir by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull