The typical coachman of another day used to tell you "carriages are ordered for ten-fifteen.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Now shall we speak of King Arthur, that said to Sir Launcelot: Had not ye been we had not lost Sir Tristram, for he was here daily unto the time ye met with him, and in an evil time, said Arthur, ye encountered with him.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her: ‘Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young king’s son—he is with me in a moment.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

And this was the great care they had of them, they sent the Males to the Mines to dig and bring away the Gold, which is an intollerable labor; but the Women they made use of to Manure and Till the ground, which is a toil most irksome even to Men of the strongest and most robust constitutions, allowing them no other food but Herbage, and such kind of unsubstantial nutriment, so that the Nursing Womens Milk was exsiccated and so dryed up, that the young Infants lately brought forth, all perished, and females being separated from and debarred cohabitation with Men, there was no Prolification or raising up issue among them.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, "Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young King's son—he is with me in a moment."
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

I did use to think you were possessed.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt Troubles the silver spring where England drinks; Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth For swallowing the treasure of the realm.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, "Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young King's son—-he is with me in a moment."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The party had by now driven up to the yard and Gully stepped out to meet them.
— from The Land of Lure: A Story of the Columbia River Basin by Elliott Smith

I will take unto him the greater pieces of gold due up to the year when the white traveller died, and will melt them in fire at his feet by night on the mountains, saying, "O, Lruru-onn (this is his name) take this by the way of earth to the grave of Hinnard."
— from If: A Play in Four Acts by Lord Dunsany

The average child with good digestion should take from one and one half pints to one quart daily until the tenth year.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

It was dark under the trees, you know."
— from Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory

The Fly-men seconded the Wormmen, assuring her Majesty, that their relation was very true; for, said they, We have rounded the Earth, and just when we came to the Antipodes, we met those Spirits in a very good condition, and acquainted them that your Majesty was very much troubled at their sudden departure, and fear'd they should be buried in the darkness of the Earth: whereupon the Spirits answered us, That they were sorry for having occasioned such sadness and trouble in your Majesty; and desired us to tell your Majesty, that they feared no darkness; for their Vehicles were of such a sort of substance as Cats eyes, Glow-worms tails, and
— from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World by Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of

I drew up to the young man and said: 'I fear, sir, it is a tougher job than you bargained for.'
— from The Last Call: A Romance (Vol. 1 of 3) by Richard Dowling

My imagination was stained by the effects of this doctrine up to the year 1843; it had been obliterated from my reason and judgment at an earlier date; but the thought remained upon me as a sort of false conscience.
— from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

Go sit down under the tree yonder."
— from Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips

They were, however, perceived by the other squirrels, who sprang by dozens upon them; the young one with two bounds escaped, the other submitted to his fate.
— from Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat