My person was advantageous enough and by my dress no one would have suspected me for a Doctor; and dress you know, is not a little engaging with women.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Nagkinahanglan kug dakung papil nga makalímis [ 612 ] (makapalímis) niíning kartun, I need a large sheet of paper to wrap this box in.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Goodness knows I need a little change, for elegance has a bad effect upon my constitution," returned Jo gruffly, being disturbed by her failures to suit.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Goodness knows I need a little change, for elegance has a bad effect upon my constitution," returned Jo gruffly, being disturbed by her failure to suit.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

[465] Kent is not answering Lear, nor is he speaking of himself.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

"Yes, we have no conception of the life these unfortunates are leading, and it is necessary to know it," Nekhludoff added, looking at the old Prince, who, sitting at the table with a napkin tucked under his chin and a large glass before him, at that moment glanced at Nekhludoff.
— from The Awakening (The Resurrection) by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Children suffer as keenly, if not as long, in their little loves and jealousies as older people; and I was as unhappy during the remainder of the day as was Octavia while Anthony was in Egypt.
— from Sea-gift: A Novel by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

Boots, brushes, earthenware, butter and lard, candles, bricks—they were all of local make; cheese was brought back from Weyhill Fair in the waggons which had carried down the hops; in short, to an extent hard to realize, the town was independent of commerce as we know it now, and looked to the farms and forests and the claypits and coppices of the neighbourhood for its supplies.
— from Change in the Village by George Sturt

God knows I need a little, to put inside me and out.”
— from The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer

"Bridget," she said, calling to the maid who had waited upon her for many years, and who was as well known in Nullington as Lady Cleeve herself, "you had better go and inquire at the office when they expect Mr. Philip home.
— from The Mysteries of Heron Dyke: A Novel of Incident. Volume 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

"If there is anything in this place we might as well know it now as later.
— from The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Roger Thompson Finlay

I merely aimed to prove the inhuman Mosaical law giving man the idea to kill is not a law of a kind and loving God.
— from Humanitarian Philosophy, 4th Edition by Emil Edward Kusel

"I had the word from Mr. Trew," she said, still rather breathless, "and his idea is that you may as well know it now as later on.
— from Love at Paddington by W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge

Katy is not a lady at all, but a he-one disguised in green silk stockings, and a green satin dress.
— from Woodland Tales by Ernest Thompson Seton