Up betimes and to my office, and there busy till the office (which was only Sir T. Harvy and myself) met, and did little business and then broke up.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

By gar, then I have as much mockvater as de Englishman.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Again I thank you—tell me where I shall take you.” “Elias, your bitter words touch my heart and make me also doubt.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

After watching her a minute Mrs. Arbuthnot did the same.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Peddlers and tramps and agents, country drummers and country circuses, medicine men who shouted the versatile merits of corn salve by the light of flaring torches, eccentric orators of eccentric theology, tent-shows of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," with real bloodhounds and unreal painted ice, gypsies who were always expected to steal some one's children and never did, peddlers with creaking, clinking wagons, hucksters and motorcyclists, motorists and dusty hikers—one by one in the days to come Diane was to meet them all and learn that the nomads of the summer road were a happy-go-lucky guild of peculiar and coöperative good humor.
— from Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple

"I hope you will excuse me that I have altered my mind and decided to go home at once," it ran.
— from Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann

CAIUS By gar, then I have as much mockvater as de Englishman. — Scurvy jack-dog priest!
— from The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

The mere thought gave him a more manly and dignified bearing.
— from Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War by Kirk Munroe

This created a great disturbance in Damascus, and the Jews held a mass meeting and decided to kill Saul.
— from A Baptist Abroad: Travels and Adventures of Europe and all Bible Lands by Walter Andrew Whittle