She kissed her father and glided down stairs, with a rapidity of motion of which no one would have thought her capable, who had seen her the minute before.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Nasugat-an nákù sila sa may taytáyan, I happened to meet them near the bridge.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So home to my office, there very late, and then to supper and to bed mightily troubled in my mind to hear how Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes do labour all they can to abuse or enable others to abuse the King. 18th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He gave me an invitation to share his dinner, and proposed a game of piquet afterwards, but from the very beginning he saw that I was no match for him; he told me so, and he warned me that the officer who would relieve him the next day was a better player even than he was himself; I lost three or four ducats.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

At this she burst into laughter, and said, “I will find out, but after all you have told me I can only admire you the more for knowing what no one else does.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It appeared that she had gone somewhere to a tea-drinking and had taken Miss Jellyby with her.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

He had, at this time, frankly communicated to me many particulars, which are inserted in this work in their proper places; and once, when I happened to mention that the expence of my jaunt would come to much more than I had computed, he said, 'Why, Sir, if the expence were to be an inconvenience, you would have reason to regret it:
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The perverse Widow, whom I have given some Account of, was the Death of several Foxes; for Sir Roger has told me that in the Course of his Amours he patched the Western Door of his Stable.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Then charging me with a letter to the lady, who proved to be the widow before mentioned, he told me that he had already prepared her to receive me.
— from The Life and Adventures of Guzman D'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue, vol. 3/3 by Mateo Alemán

Certainly I knew that she had told me to put my coat on, and she knew that I had understood.
— from Anthony the Absolute by Samuel Merwin

A friend of his family brings him to me and when I see him I regard him as a hopeless case, but nevertheless I make him pass through the preliminary experiments which are marvelously successful.
— from Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion by Emile Coué

Had the man gone crazy?
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

From beneath her the man looked up bewildered still, and half-stunned by the blow; then, after a moment or so, he muttered, "No, no!
— from A Bitter Heritage: A Modern Story of Love and Adventure by John Bloundelle-Burton

Here the Mother liv’d three or four Years, till what Money she had was almost gone; then she thought of returning to London , and considering that her Husband’s Mother was in some Circumstances, she did not doubt but to prevail upon her, to provide for the Child, if she could but pass it upon her for the same, but the changing a Girl into a Boy, seem’d a difficult Piece of Work, and how to deceive an experienced old Woman, in such a Point, was altogether as impossible; however, she ventured to dress it up as a Boy, brought it to Town, and presented it to her Mother in Law, as her Husband’s Son; the old Woman would have taken it, to have bred it up, but the Mother pretended it would break her Heart, to part with it; so it was agreed betwixt them, that the Child should live with the Mother, and the supposed Grandmother should allow a Crown a Week for it’s
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

“And' upon this there was a general mourning through all Rome: the cardinals wept, the abbots howled, the monks rored, the fryers cried, the nuns puled, the curtezans lamented, the bels rang, the tapers were lighted, that such a Blacke Sanctus was not seene a long time afore in Rome.”, The Black Sanctus here said to be performed was of a different kind.
— from Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 1 by George Daniel

(g) Definition.--In this section, the term ``covered entity'' has the meaning given such term in section 472(a)(2).
— from Homeland Security Act of 2002 Updated Through October 14, 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

he told me his nation first Came out of the ground where they had a great village.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark