The dear horses are patient and good, and they give us no trouble.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

We have our mind given us, not that it may cavil and argue, but that it may see into something, give us clear belief and understanding about something, whereon we are then to proceed to act.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

But giving us no time to consider the dimensions, he threw himself instantly over his charming antagonist who received him as he pushed at once dead at mark, like a heroine, without flinching; for surely never was girl constitutionally truer to the taste of joy, or sincerer in the expressions of its sensations, than she was: we could observe pleasure lighten in her eyes, as he introduced his plenipotentiary instrument into her; till, at length, having indulged her to its utmost reach, its irritations grew so violent, and gave her the spurs so furiously, that collected within herself, and lost to every thing but the enjoyment of her favourite feelings, she retarded his thrusts with a just concert of spring heaves, keeping time so exactly with the most pathetic sighs, that one might have numbered the strokes in agitation by their distinct murmurs, whilst her active limbs kept wreathing and intertwisting with his, in convulsive folds: then the turtle-billing kisses, and the poignant painless lovebites, which they both exchanged, in a rage of delight, all conspiring towards the melting period.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

I have here taken official honor in a wider sense than that in which it is generally used, namely, the respect due by citizens to an office itself.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Out of the hundred pounds a year, which was about the amount of her income, the Widow Osborne had been in the habit of giving up nearly three-fourths to her father and mother, for the expenses of herself and her little boy.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

He certainly seemed to be getting uncomfortably near the truth.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

“We thought it 'ud be bad luck if the old squire gave us notice this Lady day, but I must gi' notice myself now, an' see if there can anybody be got to come an' take to the crops as I'n put i' the ground; for I wonna stay upo' that man's land a day longer nor I'm forced to't.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

He had got up, not to tire her, but it was hard to combat his yearning.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

Now we should clean up 500 more so that our children grow up next to parks, not poison.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Bill Clinton

The blind man told me to go up next to the animal, and when I was there he said, "Lazaro, put your ear up next to this bull and you'll hear a great sound inside of it."
— from The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as Told by Himself by Anonymous

The horse fell down 'n' Mrs. Jilkins could n't get up, 'n' the man in the cap wanted to settle for five hundred dollars right on the spot.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs by Anne Warner

Now, I am told another thing; that after getting through with conversations they then gave us notice that we must produce our books, our papers, our letters, our stubs, and our checks; that we must produce everything in which we have any interest, and hand them all over to this prosecution.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll

Withal, a face disagreeable to gaze upon; not the less so from its air of sanctity, evidently affected.
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

His wife, as is the manner of wives, repressed his rash and impulsive intentions, and said, 'Don't you go up near them!'
— from Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor

When the birds came down, and met in council to award the prize, it was given to the eagle, because that bird had not only gone up nearer to the sun than any of the larger birds, but it had carried the linnet on its back.
— from Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, First Series. Indian Tales and Legends, Vol. 2 of 2 by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft