It gives him too much to do, and thus increases the chances for agents down on the ground to succeed in their lonely, dangerous work.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

It gave him the opportunity of having the last word, which to him was of great importance.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I gave him the promise; we shook hands, and everything was over.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And he immediately gave himself the answer: “Well, I shall live.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Many of her opinions had doubtless but a slender value, many of her emotions passed away in the utterance; but they had left a trace in giving her the habit of seeming at least to feel and think, and in imparting moreover to her words when she was really moved that prompt vividness which so many people had regarded as a sign of superiority.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

A little gold made everything right with Bellino’s mother; I gave her the name of mother, and she kissed me, calling me her dear son.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

medrar i grow, have things better, be finely off.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Poinsinet, who was hearthless and homeless, as they say, spent the night in my room, and in the morning I gave him two cups of chocolate and some money wherewith to get a lodging.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If I presuppose that a perfect virtue manifests itself in contending, in patient enduring of pain, and undergoing the uttermost extremity of the gout; without being moved in her seat; if I give her troubles and difficulty for her necessary objects: what will become of a virtue elevated to such a degree, as not only to despise pain, but, moreover, to rejoice in it, and to be tickled with the throes of a sharp colic, such as the Epicureans have established, and of which many of them, by their actions, have given most manifest proofs?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In general, however, the credulity of Livy appears to be rather affected than real; and his account of the exit of Romulus, in the following passage, may be adduced as an instance in confirmation of this remark.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

His daring imagination gives him the more solid grasp of facts; as the birds of the highest flight have the strongest alar bones.” . . .
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, March 1850 by Various

[Pg 16] ing and disagreeable, I found it a good plan when I got home to my library in the country to have three books on hand for recreation.
— from Recreation by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G. by Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount

Three of the verses I give here: “The ‘Lovely Jane’ went sailing down To anchor at the Spicy Isles; And the wind was fair as ever was blown, For the matter of a thousand miles.
— from Mrs. Falchion, Complete by Gilbert Parker

"He was tired and fretful to-night, so I got him to bed, and gave him a soothing draught—one that our friend Dr. Arkroyd sent him.
— from Beaumaroy Home from the Wars by Anthony Hope

"Kerfoot, of Gramercy Park West." "What number?" I gave him the number.
— from The Man Who Couldn't Sleep by Arthur Stringer

I got her to write and never answered.
— from Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

“I gave her that and it’s all hers.”
— from Nancy Brandon's Mystery by Lilian Garis

nobles and a halfe &c. Item, that the third day of the moneth of October, in the yeare of our Lord abouewritten, and in the fift yere of the reigne of our soueraigne lord the king, between the reuerend father in God, Henrie then bishop of Lincolne lord chancelor, and William lord de Roos high treasurer of England, on the one party and the sayd ambassadours on the other party, it was (according to their petition) amongst other things ordayned: namely that the liege people of our soueraigne lord the king should freely be permitted, vntill the feast of Easter then next after ensuing to remaine in the land of Prussia, and from thence with their goods and marchandises to returne vnto their own homes, and also, that the subiects of the sayd Master generall in the kingdome of England should haue licence and liberty to doe the like.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt