"First, however," said the Pumpkinhead, "I beg you will release me from this horse, and make me another leg to walk with.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

I then thought of going to New York, as the nearest place where there was a printer; and I was rather inclin'd to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and, from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother's case, it was likely I might, if I stay'd, soon bring myself into scrapes; and farther, that my indiscreet disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel or atheist.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Perhaps I saw her glove waved in a carriage window; perhaps I met her, walked with her and Miss Murdstone a little way, and spoke to her.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I felt very much inclined to laugh, but restrained the inclination as well as I could—and if the little creature would have sat still, I could have quelled my rebellious propensity altogether; but up he would jump at every word I said to him, and make me a low, jerking bow, often with his mouth quite full, and the treacherous molasses running over his chin.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Vapours of ambition certainly mounted into my head, and made me a little giddy; that night I did not sleep quite so well as usual.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

For my life, my happiness, and my misery, all lie wrapped up in the heart of your majesty.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

—— took off his hat and made me a low bow.
— from Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

my dear child, you can't think what a darling he is; from his babyhood every woman has adored him—the nurse maids were his slaves, and my old housekeeper and my maid are like two jealous cats as to who shall do things for him when he comes home.
— from The Price of Things by Elinor Glyn

Ted half smiled, thinking that if he had had as much money as Lord Blackborough he would have known better how to spend it on the girl he loved; but, of course, if Ned chose to be so niggardly in some things, so lavish in others, it was his own lookout.
— from A Sovereign Remedy by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Come forth here and meet me, and let you and me alone arrange for returning the peonas to their home.
— from The Bride of Mission San José: A Tale of Early California by John Augustine Cull

No sooner has a man made a little money in the city, than away he rushes to the fields and rivers, and nothing would so deeply hurt the pride of the nouveaux riches as to insinuate that he was not quite fully imbued with the spirit and the knowledge of the country.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies