HERMIA I do entreat your grace to pardon me.
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

The secession leaders I held in distrust; especially Yancey, Mason, Slidell, Benjamin and Iverson, Jefferson Davis and Isham G. Harris were not favorites of mine.
— from Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

How I do envy you that dear boy of yours!
— from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 2 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens

How I did enjoy your lemon-juice!’
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

There, face downwards, on the floor they found him; whereupon, it seems, a second local genius decided that he had been killed by the fall--in spite of which pronouncement, let me assure you, quite between ourselves, that it is by no means sure that he is dead even yet."
— from The Coward Behind the Curtain by Richard Marsh

How I do envy your placidity of temper.”
— from Arminell: A Social Romance, Vol. 2 by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

,” said he, “I do entreat you to give this to George Fielding the moment he returns to the camp.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

"I waited upon your husband all my life—in his sickness especially, and shrouded him in death, etc., yet I am treated cruelly."
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still