“Well, then, why do you wish me to give up seeing such a man?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

"Let your worship get up," said Sancho, "and you will see the nice business you have made of it, and what we have to pay; and you will see the queen turned into a private lady called Dorothea, and other things that will astonish you, if you understand them."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He took this second wife, Sofya Ivanovna, also a very young girl, from another province, where he had gone upon some small piece of business in company with a Jew.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was five or six years since she had given up shop, so in any other place than Cranford her dress might have been considered passée .
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

It is true we have gone through great melancholy because of the great plague, and I put to great charges by it, by keeping my family long at Woolwich, and myself and another part of my family, my clerks, at my charge at Greenwich, and a mayde at London; but I hope the King will give us some satisfaction for that.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

(13) Ziegler, T. Die geistigen und socialen Strömungen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[Preventing him from getting up] Sit still, sit still, and let us wheel you.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

We met with a companion that walked with us, and coming among some trees near the Neate houses, he began to whistle, which did give us some suspicion, but it proved that he that answered him was Mr. Marsh (the Lutenist) and his wife, and so we all walked to Westminster together, in our way drinking a while at my cost, and had a song of him, but his voice is quite lost.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[ MAN SERVANT comes in above platform, and goes up side stairs.
— from The Devil by Ferenc Molnár

Indeed there seemed only one conclusion to it with Elma: that after knowing exactly what it was to call on people who had men servants, in her youth, when she grew up she should be obliged to marry a duke.
— from The Story Book Girls by Christina Gowans Whyte

The dog did not stir till his master bent down and touched him, when he started into wakefulness, got up stiffly, shook himself and made his ears rattle, and then yawned in a very human way.
— from Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

It was just about sunrise, and Mr. Crow knew Jack Rabbit didn't get up so soon, and he made up his mind he wouldn't wake him when he got there, but would just take a look over his nice garden and come away again.
— from The Hollow Tree Snowed-in Book being a continuation of the stories about the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods people by Albert Bigelow Paine

“I want to go up,” said Swithin.
— from Villa Rubein, and Other Stories by John Galsworthy

In health or sickness, infancy or age, at home Page 5 or on our travels, nothing is so generally useful, so sustaining and invigorating.
— from The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa by Brandon Head

Dotty had said she was going to give up; still she struggled on, and Tate followed, crying out,— “If we die you’ll say ’twas me did it; but who hit my nose?”
— from Dotty Dimple at School by Sophie May

Gott im Himmel, wass hut seller bull awer gabroomt, un si shwans g’shlenkert, un g’shneesd un g’shnorrixd!
— from Pennsylvania Dutch Rip Van Winkle: A romantic drama in two acts by E. H. (Edward H.) Rauch

A party of Dutch Boers jagging them and firing above, drove a herd in our direction, giving us some splendid shots.
— from Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 by William Ross King