I confess that there may be some mixture of pride and obstinacy in keeping myself so upright and open as I do, without any consideration of others; and methinks I am a little too free, where I ought least to be so, and that I grow hot by the opposition of respect; and it may be also, that I suffer myself to follow the propension of my own nature for want of art; using the same liberty, speech, and countenance towards great persons, that I bring with me from my own house: I am sensible how much it declines towards incivility and indiscretion but, besides that I am so bred, I have not a wit supple enough to evade a sudden question, and to escape by some evasion, nor to feign a truth, nor memory enough to retain it so feigned; nor, truly, assurance enough to maintain it, and so play the brave out of weakness.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"Good evening, Pseldonimov, do you know me?" said Ivan Ilyitch, and felt at the same minute that he had said this very awkwardly; he felt, too, that he was perhaps doing something horribly stupid at that moment.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our natural distress, the visits of the neighbours, the arranging of the funeral, and all the work of the inn to be carried on in the meanwhile kept me so busy that I had scarcely time to think of the captain, far less to be afraid of him.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Ah," replied the hound, "as I am old, and daily grow weaker, and no longer can hunt, my master wanted to kill me, so I took to flight; but now how am I to earn my bread?"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

"You never knew me see double when I'd got a bargain to make; it 'ud spoil the fun.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

From thence King Magnus sailed to Islay, where he plundered and burnt; and when he had taken that country he proceeded south around Cantire, marauding on both sides in Scotland and Ireland, and advanced with his foray to Man, where he plundered.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

My Situation a very disagreeable one. in an open Canoe wet and without a possibility of keeping my Self dry.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Wà ku makasigúru sa íyang panuígun.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nagdiskasyun mi sa klási mahitungud sa liksiyun, We held a discussion in class about the lesson.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Maáyu lang kamung muwardiwardi sa kwarta nga wà ninyu hagúi, It’s easy for you to squander money which you didn’t work for.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He told me the King must suffer it yet longer, that he would not advise the King to do otherwise; for it would break out again worse, if he should break them up before the core be come up.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

At a funeral also the Kumhār must supply thirteen vessels which are known as ghāts , and must also replace the broken earthenware.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Ígù ra kung mituslù sa túbig.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She at least knows my sentiments as to what goes on in this house.
— from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

Deep to the woods I sing a Shepherd's care, Deep to the woods, Cyllenus calls me there, The last retreat of Love and Verse I go, Verse made me mad at first and——will keep me so.'
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 1 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

“I will keep my secret no longer.
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro

And then he kisses me, and I think in the whole of heaven there can never be an angel so good and beautiful as he is, and he says something to me which keeps me strong until the next night, when he says something else.”
— from Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade

When I sought advancement, it was he who canvassed and spoke for me; when I entered upon an office he introduced me and stood by my side; in all administrative work he gave me counsel and kept me straight; in short, in all my public duties, despite his weakness and his years, he showed himself to have the energy and fire of youth.
— from The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by the Younger Pliny

In any case, I know you will keep my secret.”
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant