At its frequent rise and fall you would say that they swinge and belabour me after the manner of a probationer, posed and put to a peremptory trial in the examination of his sufficiency for the discharge of the learned duty of a graduate in some eminent degree in the college of the Sorbonists.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

‘If here ain’t the Harrisburg mail at last, and dreadful bright and smart to look at too,’ cried an elderly gentleman in some excitement, ‘darn my mother!’
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

It's all right and proper as how he should carry the news of the Gospel to them pore naked blacks, but as I says to Garrett, I says, ''E don't ought to go and engage 'isself before'and to a girl as 'e mayn't never come back to marry, and as 'll spend the best years of 'er life a-waitin' an' a-waitin' and cryin' 'er eyes put to no use.'
— from The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Johnston

He hath not too many men to help him—the Tories grow in strength every day.
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

However, the Italian woman in general is still entirely dependent on the man (see the discussion in Alaremo’s Una Donna ), and in the unenlightened classes
— from The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey by Käthe Schirmacher

But whatever the original purpose, and its virtue or lack of it, the union grew into something entirely different by the early and middle twentieth century.
— from Frigid Fracas by Mack Reynolds

The health-giving weeks passed by, and I gained in strength each day.
— from The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History by Myrtle Reed

He took aim coldly, waiting for the propitious moment, and was about to pull the trigger, when Karl said, in German: "I say, Excellenz , do you know what's being prepared for the ferryman's house?"
— from The Woman of Mystery by Maurice Leblanc

It was the kind that costs three dollars flat, over and above what you give to the party that does it for you, being genuine steel-engraved, with a beautiful bridal couple under a floral bell, the groom in severe evening dress, and liberally spotted with cupids and pigeons.
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson

Cornelia could never quite believe it herself, though she strengthened her purpose with repeated affirmation, tacit and explicit, and said it would be very easy to tell Mrs. Westley she was not going, if she ever did come for her.
— from The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells

And then he wuz gone; I see 'em divide into four parties, and go towards the woods, and towards the hills, and towards the creek, and towards the beaver medder, each party havin' a rope, and I sez solemn like, before I thought— "May God have mercy on your poor soul!"
— from Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley