Do not blame me if I say that the recollection of this innocence and truth is deeply impressed upon my very soul; that this picture of fidelity and tenderness haunts me everywhere; and that my own heart, as though enkindled by the flame, glows and burns within me.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

,” I used to answer, “I hardly know how I do it, upon my life.”—“Pell,” he’d add, sighing, and looking at me with a little envy—friendly envy, you know, gentlemen, mere friendly envy; I never minded it—“Pell, you’re a wonder; a wonder.”
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The Oolite is divided into Upper, Middle, and Lower, consisting of the following:— Upper Oolite ⌈Pembroke Beds. ⎢Portland Beds.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

As pastor and parent, My Foot is down'——" "I understand, Mr. Finch.
— from Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins

If 44 were taken in isolation, leuatis , which most editors print, would be acceptable enough; compare Tr IV i 49 ' iure deas igitur ueneror mala nostra leuantes ' and EP III vi 13-14 'nec scelus admittas si consoleris amicum, / mollibus et uerbis aspera fata leues '.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

I drew it up myself.
— from The Red Bicycle by Fergus Hume

Metropolitana , that "its current has great violence and rapidity, and its depth is unfathomable," must be received with some allowance.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

I dug it up myself—it’s not down on any of the records I got from the charity people.
— from Local Color by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

He kicked over a chair wot was in 'is way and went off in such a temper as we'd never seen 'im in afore, and, wot was more surprising still, but I know it's true, 'cos I drunk it up myself, he'd left over arf a pint o' beer in 'is mug.
— from Short Cruises by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

I daubed it upon my forehead.
— from In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets