With them the dread penalty of failure is 'go hungry till you win,' and no harder task have they than their reading lesson.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

But, there, if you still feel confident that you can make her happy, and that you can take her for herself alone, my dear Fairfax, I give her to you, and with her my most hearty blessing."
— from The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love by Charles Garvice

I will do more, rejoined that prince, in requital for having saved your life, and the respect he has bore to me, and to make amends for the loss of his goods; and, in short, to repair the wrong I have done to his family, I give him to you for a husband.
— from The Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (of 4) by Anonymous

Marks of consideration by the master will go far in giving happiness to your hands: as, for instance, by asking the opinion of those of them who have done good work, as to how the work ought to be done, which has the effect of making them think less that they are looked down upon, and encourages them to believe that they are held in some estimation by the master.
— from Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Marcus Porcius Cato

Fifty is givin' him to you."
— from The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Henry Herbert Knibbs

But he's yours now, fer I give him to you."
— from The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey

Then the royal sage Akampana, seeing Mandaradeví come with her brother, said to that emperor, “Here, king, is my daughter, Mandaradeví by name; and a heavenly voice said that she should be the consort of an emperor; so marry her, emperor, for I give her to you.”
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta