I'm sure as an old friend and neighbor, Cyrus, you will pardon me.
— from Cy Whittaker's Place by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Men believed, and argued, and doubted about the existence of it across the seas there, until a man went, and came back again, and then went to found a new city yonder.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

"The story of how the Canadians fought at Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, at Givenchy, at Festubert, as he tells it here, is as absorbing as ever, and our pride in the lavish bravery and sacrifice of the daughter nation is, if that were possible, strengthened by reading these pages....
— from Canada in Flanders, Volume I by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron

Should you find a nominative case looking out for a verb—or a fatherless verb for a nominative case, you must excuse it.
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You cannot (I say) get away from these connotations accreted through your own memories and your fathers'; as neither can you be sure of getting free of any great literature in any tongue, once it has been written.
— from On The Art of Reading by Arthur Quiller-Couch

"At any rate, come back here in a year, and if your cackling Pythia and this little leaf tell the truth, and I am permitted to bring it to you without support or crutch, I'll give you a stout piece of cloth for a new cloak; yet nay, better try your luck in six months, for your chiton looks sicker than I, and will hardly last a whole year.
— from The Complete Short Works of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

In May he shot a young bird on the Medina River, and early in June he found a nest containing young on the Colorado.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

I have observ'd your way, and understand it, And equal love it as Demetrius , My noble child thou shalt not fall in vertue, I and my power will sink first: you Leontius , Wait for a new Commission, ye shall out again, And instantly: you shall not lodge this night here, Not see a friend, nor take a blessing with ye, Before ye be i'th' field: the enemy is up still, And still in full design: Charge him again, Son, And either bring home that again thou hast lost there, Or leave thy body by him.
— from Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by John Fletcher

Recently, too, Adela has been giving sisterly advice on how to walk becomingly: "Look straight before you, with your eyelids low and fixed, gazing forward at the ground six fathoms ahead, not changing your look from one place to another, nor laughing, nor stopping to chatter with anybody upon the highway."
— from Life on a Mediaeval Barony A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century by William Stearns Davis