Nevertheless, glory to God the father, Lord of all, though you have done some things that I would not have done, and as to the weather ...
— from The Heart of England by Edward Thomas

Here and there he stops to dig with an iron tool, and finds good mould, or peaty soil, manured with the rotted wood and fallen leaves of a thousand years.
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

But, before we take our final leave of America, there yet remains the consideration of a matter well worthy of attention, the discussion of which shall be referred to the ensuing chapter.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron

"It is not for love of Antoinette that you have sought this meeting.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The toadying beast is even trying to curry favour by saying that your copyhold is for life only, and that your fine is uncertain.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

“You can fairly live outdoors all the year round, and you’d find lots of things that would be strange and interesting.
— from Bobby Blake on a Plantation; Or, Lost in the Great Swamp by Frank A. Warner

If Shelley talked to the Duke of the Tremadoc embankment in the style in which he wrote about it to the Welsh agent, his Grace of Norfolk must have found it difficult to refrain from laughing outright at the youngster.
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson