He was now growing up like a green tree, able For love, war, or ambition, which reward Their luckier votaries, till old age's tedium Make some prefer the circulating medium.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

I don't however intend to give up Latin and Greek entirely.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Thence Sir J. Minnes giving us, like a gentleman, his coach, hearing we had some business, we to the Park, and so home.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Miss Nicholas has given us, ladies and gentlemen, a banquet.
— from The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

"God bless me!" said the climacterical man; "so then, after all, you'll have a chance to see your childer get up like, and get settled!
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

Dryden gave us large and grand outlines.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

Sir Graham was stemming it to the best of his ability, and if he was to go under would go under like a gentleman.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

He was now growing up like a green tree, able For Love, War, or Ambition, which reward [407]
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Come, get up, like a good girl, and we'll talk it over when we get to your house.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

A big squaw, with malicious eyes and gaping upper lip and girdle of agates, watching Louis Laplante and myself at the encampment in the gorge.
— from Lords of the North by Agnes C. Laut

I ought to be home now tending to things for him; and I'll have to give up learning and go when crap-time comes.
— from Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman