I said, like as I had read in a book a night or two before, Angels and saints, and all the host of heaven, defend me!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Mr. —— was very kind, and spoke in raptures of the woods, which formed the theme of conversation during our journey—their beauty, their vastness, the comfort and independence enjoyed by those who had settled in them; and he so inspired me with the subject that I did nothing all day but sing as we rode along— 'A life in the woods for me;' until we came to the woods, and then I soon learned to sing that same, as the Irishman says, on the other side of my mouth.” Here succeeded a long pause, during which friend Tom seemed mightily tickled with his reminiscences, for he leaned back in his chair, and from time to time gave way to loud, hollow bursts of laughter.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Idùdù sa linúgaw ang asin nga binatu, Press the chunk of salt onto the porridge.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I shall leave this in a few days for my government, to which I am going with a mighty great desire to make money, for they tell me all new governors set out with the same desire; I will feel the pulse of it and will let thee know if thou art to come and live with me or not.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I do not know what you call discontented; but when a man has made every possible arrangement to please you and every body, and all his plans are to be set aside merely because the day he has fixed on does not exactly suit your fancy, if that be not discontent, I should like very much to know what is, Arabella.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

I am well satisfied, that, was I now to disappoint the young creature, her death would be the consequence, and I should look upon myself as her murderer; nay, as her murderer by the cruellest of all methods, by breaking her heart.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Miss Sullivan's account in her address at Chautauqua, in July, 1894, at the meeting of The American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, is substantially like Miss Keller's in points of fact.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

I ordered my lieutenant to send plenty to eat and to drink to the men on board the felucca, to prepare a splendid supper, and to spare nothing, as I should leave the island at midnight.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And yet you also never ceased telling me that I should live as justly as possible.
— from Laws by Plato

Leonilda said he was generous, good-hearted, and polished, and assured me that I should like him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“I should like sometime to know a Jew,” I said to myself.
— from The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment by David Grayson

d’Oleron: laws against wrecking, ii. 237 Roman ships and galleys, i. 261 Ronayne, John: his bravery in saving life, ii. 257–261 Rooke, Sir George: Gibraltar taken by him, i. 94 Rose, Richard: his life-buoy seat, iv.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper

If he can make use of you, all right; he'll do it so long as it pays him; but he'd sell his own wife, poor wretch, for a few marks.
— from The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. Marchmont

In wishing "M. A." adieu, I would state that his style of composition is so like Mr. Staunton's that no one could detect the difference.
— from The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Frederick Milnes Edge

I say, 'Let not my attendant remove the pitcher from the stream.'
— from The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

I should like to explain that the presence of a man and a dog in one illustration is accidental, and was not observed by me till I developed the negative.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

There is so little tide, however, on the northwest coast, that this method of fishing can not be practiced, and, as far as I know, there is no locality in the range of the Point Barrow natives, a region of open shoal beaches, and rivers free of rocks, where this spear could be used in which a net would not serve the purpose much better.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch