As the pony had now thrown off all disguise, and without any mincing of the matter or beating about the bush, sturdily refused to be driven by anybody but Kit, it generally happened that whether old Mr Garland came, or Mr Abel, Kit was of the party.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Then, said the king, I give her to you, and go ye to the fire and take her, and do with her what ye will.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

“Do you know, I gave her the most delicate instructions, so to speak, for inviting that lady and her daughter, you understand of whom I am speaking?
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

O old Sir Robert, father, on my knee I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I was reluctant to enter minutely into that question, but as he begged I would, for he was really curious to know, I gave him to understand in the gentlest words I could use that his conduct seemed to involve a disregard of several moral obligations.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Mr. Cawood kept in good health throughout, but when, on the relief of Ladysmith, the President of the South African Conference (Rev. W. Wynne) visited the town, he reported that Mr. Cawood looked ten years older.
— from From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa by William E. Sellers

“What else is he for?” “Woloda says that Karl Ivanitch gave him the powder himself,” declared Mimi.
— from Boyhood by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

El Zagal was now full king in Granada, holding the Alhambra as his palace, and his nephew, who had been a wanderer since his flight from Almeria, was instigated to make a bold stroke for the throne.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish by Charles Morris

He kept in good health to the last, and then almost every disease seemed to come upon him at once.
— from From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa by William E. Sellers

The people in the next room are very kind to mother, and let her come in there to warm—because, you know, I get half the coal.'
— from Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

Dated this —— day of ——, 18—. Witness, K. I. G. H. To Mr. L. M. Form of Notice to Quit, from Landlord to Tenant.
— from The Gentleman's Model Letter-writer A Complete Guide to Correspondence on All Subjects, with Commercial Forms by Anonymous

'Troth, man, I have small doubt that he will,' quoth the king, 'I gave him the schedule of her worldly substance, which you delivered to us in the council, and we allowed him half an hour to chew the cud upon that.
— from Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) by Richard Holt Hutton

There are multitudes of "nervous" women, hysterical even, who are restored to health, and kept in good health, through the stimulative effects of satisfactory coitus and the absorption of semen, when both these items are present in perfection.
— from Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise by H. W. (Harland William) Long