I began to move slowly in and out, keeping up my movements at the other points of excitement.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Dihang misinggit ang kunduktur ug myúsik, mipabulhut dáyun ang draybir, When the conductor shouted ‘music, maestro’, the driver immediately took off.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Then be so kind,” urged Miss Manette, “as to leave us here.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Some of them I know understood me, more of them did not.
— from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble

I left a little earlier that evening, as I knew Uncle Max meant to pay me a visit; but it was already dark when I closed the little gate behind me.
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: and let it come to pass that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master."
— from Woman in Sacred History A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources by Harriet Beecher Stowe

First I walked about the great stone skeleton; but though the symmetrical glory of the architecture, its massive regularity, and what I would call soldier-like precision of uniformity, kept urging my mind to look and admire; still the impression of vastness was predominant, and all but drove out other thoughts.
— from Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone Notes, social, picturesque, and legendary, by the way. by Angus B. (Angus Bethune) Reach

The eventful Monday came at last, and with my little box corded up, with Mrs Hudson as an escort, and a pair of brand-new knickerbockers upon my manly person, I started off from my uncle’s house in the coach for Stonebridge, with all the world before me.
— from My Friend Smith: A Story of School and City Life by Talbot Baines Reed

But what to me are north and south, And what the lure of many lands, Since you have leaned to catch my hands And lay a kiss upon my mouth.
— from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale

I want to keep up my music, anyway, and practising does take a lot of time.
— from Jean Cabot at Ashton by Gertrude Fisher Scott

This is the arrangement I have kept up, and hope to keep up many more years.
— from Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch. Two Stories of Jewish Life by Ulrich Frank