So onward glide the days in my lonely abode; Driven forth from the world where once I was known, I muse o’er the fate upon me bestow’d; A fragment forgotten that the moss will corrode, To hide from mankind the world in me shown.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

I perceiv'd, then, I was beginning to be in love— As she continued rub-rub-rubbing—I felt it spread from under her hand, an' please your honour, to every part of my frame— The more she rubb'd, and the longer strokes she took—the more the fire kindled in my veins—till at length, by two or three strokes longer than the rest—my passion rose to the highest pitch—I seiz'd her hand— —And then thou clapped'st it to thy lips, Trim, said my uncle Toby—and madest a speech.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

If it's really easy for anyone to know what your real key is, man-in-the-middle gets harder and harder.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Then first her anger, leaving Pelleas, burned Full on her knights in many an evil name Of craven, weakling, and thrice-beaten hound: 'Yet, take him, ye that scarce are fit to touch, Far less to bind, your victor, and thrust him out, And let who will release him from his bonds.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

And for the other Sacraments, of eating the Paschall Lambe, it is manifestly imitated in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; in which the Breaking of the Bread, and the pouring out of the Wine, do keep in memory our deliverance from the Misery of Sin, by Christs Passion, as the eating of the Paschall Lambe, kept in memory the deliverance of the Jewes out of the Bondage of Egypt.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

‘May I not keep it myself?’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

"I had a buggy and a little grey pony I kept in Moyer's Livery.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

This simple story is very significant—we are not to pay attention to gossips but to keep in mind that the information of persons is in the rule more important and more reliable when the question under consideration is indifferent to them than when it is important.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Major Scott, whose guest I was, kindly invited me to the interview, during which it transpired that Datto Timbang had heard Ambutong declare he would come to the bichâra , but he would not leave it without taking heads.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

[185] We have seen Wolsey in his garniture of gold, going from court to school; and Sir Thomas More, stern, strong, and unyielding; and Archbishop Cranmer, disposed to think rightly, but without the courage to back up his thought; and associated with these, it were well to keep in mind the other figures of the great religious processional.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor by Donald Grant Mitchell

"I didn't know it myself," Marian explained.
— from Thurston of Orchard Valley by Harold Bindloss

I have known it more than sixty years.
— from The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

I know it made me feel ashamed of my discontent these last three months.
— from A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends by May Baldwin

And the word, as we know, is not only a key; it may also be a fetter.
— from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

If only they are not drenched with rancid butter, their own native excellence makes itself known in most of the ordinary modes of preparation.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe