I boated over, ran
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Those summer days which some of my contemporaries devoted to the fine arts in Boston or Rome, and others to contemplation in India, and others to trade in London or New York, I thus, with the other farmers of New England, devoted to husbandry.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

I be, on returne?
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

‘It is but one room you see.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

I believe our right to establish this bipartite division cannot be questioned.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

On the east side of this lane, betwixt West Cheape and the church of St. Augustine, Henry Walles, mayor (by license of Edward I.), built one row of houses, the profits rising of them to be employed on London bridge.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Besides, it depends on the owner whether he desires to build in brick, or rubble work, or dimension stone.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Some way out, the wash upon an irregular band of reef shone with a pallid light of its own.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“Cedric is not her father,” replied the Prior, “and is but of remote relation: she is descended from higher blood than even he pretends to, and is but distantly connected with him by birth.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

In spite of my almost passionate anxiety for Minna, I had observed with singular pleasure the intelligent behaviour of Robber, who, as though conscious of the danger, silently kept close to our side, and entirely dispelled my fear that he would give trouble during our dangerous passage.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

"It is too late for that," she said; "when suffering is prolonged beyond a certain point there is but one remedy—death.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

This is exactly what a series is: Words or phrases that are closely connected with one another and are all linked together; as, We welcome you to the immeasurable blessings of rational existence, the immortal hope of Christianity, and the light of everlasting truth!
— from How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking by Edwin Gordon Lawrence

Yet I would urge the necessity of impressing them with a knowledge of good and evil, with a detective perception sufficient for your protection against their revengeful instincts, that you may not become the victims of misplaced confidence for the malicious injuries inflicted by our race.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

He flushed a little, and after an instant said: "I thought at first that I might see my way to offering myself as an instructor, but on reflection I find it would be difficult for me to find time.
— from A Romantic Young Lady by Robert Grant

The after-part, nearest to the sloop, had remained firm in its bed of rocks.
— from Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

ing than one of but moderate ability in money-getting but great judgment as a parent; or that exhaustive information bearing on right social action, joined with entire want of general culture in literature and the fine arts, is less desirable than a more moderate share of the one joined with some of the other.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

" Now it will be found, that, in the discussion which it contains, as in various other writings of mine, when I was in the Anglican Church, the argument in behalf of Rome is stated with considerable perspicuity and force.
— from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

In filling the scarcely less completely Irish bishopric of Ross, the King took a direct part.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

After having pronounced these words, the intrepid bishop of Rama and Gauthier de Brienne, followed by his companions in arms, rushed amidst the ranks of the enemy, burning to obtain victory or the crown of martyrdom.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud