“Ay, that I would, with the best intentions in the world, but since I cannot carry out my purpose, I will even drink with you or fight with you, as you will.”
— from The Crimson Sign A Narrative of the Adventures of Mr. Gervase Orme, Sometime Lieutenant in Mountjoy's Regiment of Foot by S. R. (Samuel Robert) Keightley

It will be perceived that to what is called confusion of metaphors Pindar shows a lordly indifference.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

"I can't lady—not yet-the time ain't ripe yet; but ef you'll trust a lass like me, and give a promise, then I can carry out my plan.
— from A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade

"Try it and see what kind of fireworks I carry concealed on my person.
— from The Young Engineers on the Gulf Or, The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

I cannot conceive of my personality as a thing apart from the phenomena of my life.
— from Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley

Its closing chapter on motion picture photography is a sane criticism of the admirable features and the faults of that important department of modern work with the camera.”—Boston
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

So long as he supposes me far away, I can carry on my projects in London with far greater security.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

If I could carry out my plans, all I should need afterwards would be a hut to live in, a garret.”
— from Cæsar or Nothing by Pío Baroja

I generally find I can carry out my plans successfully, if I don't take too many people into my confidence!' Elfie was silent for a few minutes; then she said, with a little sigh, 'I wonder how old Nannie is getting on?' 'What has put her into your head?' 'The verses she gave us.
— from The Carved Cupboard by Amy Le Feuvre