Haven’t you water?... and give me a napkin or a towel, anything, as quick as you can....
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You have given me a notion, my pretty child; I will make you both happy.”
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

This gave me a new alarm: how will he be provoked, thought I, when he finds what a simple rustic he has honoured with his choice!
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

"Well," said Little Claus at length, "you have been so good as to give me a night's lodging, I will not refuse you; you shall have the conjuror for a bushel of money, but I will have quite full measure.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

GENTRY MORT , a noble or gentle woman.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

In the same sense the transcendental philosopher says; grant me a nature having two contrary forces, the one of which tends to expand infinitely, while the other strives to apprehend or find itself in this infinity, and I will cause the world of intelllgences with the whole system of their representations to rise up before you.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The three were inseparable to the Greek mind, and no conception of perfection could be formed in which they did not unite.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

the gold medal, although not a field officer.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

He advised me to require the midwife to give bail for her appearance, and I told my attorney to do so; but, four days after, the following incident took place: I was walking in the Temple Gardens, when I was accosted by a Savoyard, who gave me a note in which I was informed that somebody in an alley, fifty paces off, wanted to speak to me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He gives melodies, and now and then the simplest and sweetest ones; but harmonies, complications, oratorios in words, never.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He may plead that great military and naval establishments do not exist for the purpose of the conquest of territory or of destroying a rival's trade, but for "protecting" or indirectly aiding trade and industry.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

Then made answer the king: You, my fellow, have given me a name, and I shall henceforth be called Rolf Krake, but it is customary that a gift accompanies the name.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The garter, the thistle, and the shamrock should be reserved especially for the great military and naval commanders of the realm: the bath, and perhaps one or two other new orders, should be destined for men of eminence in whatever line of life they might be able to render service to their country.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 by Various

He made me repeat my instructions, impressing upon me that I was to treat the landmarks he gave me just as I did the blazed trees in the forest, making sure of another’s position before I left one, and, satisfied at last, he gave me a nod of the head, and said abruptly— “Off as soon as you can.”
— from To The West by George Manville Fenn

Moreover, a slur at his personal splendor was a very grave matter and not to be overlooked.
— from Pee-Wee Harris by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

After two years spent there, and a short experience in a wholesale store in New York, he established himself in business as a dry goods merchant at Norwich, Conn.
— from Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher. by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Do you call that saving? Mademoiselle de Narbonne, I have a story to tell, and afterwards, if you will give me a night to rest the horses, Martin and I will go.
— from The King's Scapegoat by Hamilton Drummond

Great men are not commonly in its halls; they are absent in the field: they are working, not triumphing.
— from Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

That evening Aunt Isobel gave me a new picture for my room.
— from A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing