For why should I give myself so much of labour and so much of sorrow?
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Wait till I get my stride.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

That is what is so mournful to think of; it gives me so much concern, that—.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

Indeed, there is generally more significance in mythological tales than those imagine who look upon them chiefly as a barren play of fancy.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Note 6411 ( return ) [ Sozomen and Philostorgius say that the bishop Ulphilas was one of these ambassadors.—M.] During the suspense of a doubtful and distant negotiation, the impatient Goths made some rash attempts to pass the Danube, without the permission of the government, whose protection they had implored.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It gives me sincere satisfaction.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Faith, he is not of that mind: he is gone, master Stephen. Step.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

He that first brought them into Greece, men say was Cadmus, the sonne of Agenor, King of Phaenicia.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Fog and drifting ice are, in general, more serious obstacles to steamers than to sailing ships.
— from Meteorology: The Science of the Atmosphere by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

“And if we lose?” Mrs. Bellew raised her eyes, and involuntarily George moved so that his mother could not see the sort of slow mesmerism that was in them.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

971 There are instinctive longings, mysterious yearnings of the human heart, to which that unveiling of the heart of God which is made in the teaching and life of the incarnate God most satisfyingly answers.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

In the spring of 1799, he again defeated Jourdan in Suabia, as he had done two years before in Franconia; but in Switzerland he met with an abler adversary in General Massena; still, I am inclined to think that he displayed there more real talents than anywhere else; and that this part of his campaign of 1799 was the most interesting, in a military point of view.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 7 by Lewis Goldsmith

I got my statements in such a muddle, I had to leave it."
— from The Nicest Girl in the School: A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil

" "Let us talk no more of that adventure," said she; "I cannot bear the thought of it, it giving me shame, and the consequences of it have been such that it is too melancholy a subject to be spoken of; it is but too true that you were the cause of Monsieur de Cleves's death;
— from The Princess of Cleves by Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) La Fayette

I give my self to Hellas!
— from The Coryston Family A Novel by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

And to which suitor should I give my smile?"
— from The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I give my son to you as hostage of my good faith.
— from A Republic Without a President, and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

Now, that in the particular case of Sarsia the irritability of the tonically contracting manubrium is higher than that of the rhythmically contracting bell is a matter, not of supposition, but of observable fact; for not only is the manubrium more irritable than the bell in response to direct stimulation of its own substance, but it is generally more so even when the stimuli are applied anywhere over the excitable tissues of the bell.
— from Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems by George John Romanes