“I will forgive thee never,” cried Sir Gawain, “and if the king accordeth with thee he shall lose my service.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

There are the Baptist Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, the London Missionary Society, the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

But little Miss Sharp!
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Arkady, you make me so happy with your affection, without you I could not live,—no, no, don't say anything, Arkady, let me squeeze your hand, let me ... tha...ank ...
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sit down, my dear, and let me see your fine hair flowing over your beautiful body.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Indeed, had you, like me, seen his respectful behaviour, you would have been convinced of the impracticability of supporting any further indignation.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Clark, June 22, 1805] June 22nd Satturday 1805 a fine morning, Capt Lewis my Self and all the party except a Sergeant Ordway Guterich and the Interpreter and his wife Sar car gah we a (who are left at Camp to take Care of the baggage left) across the portage with one Canoe on truck wheels and loaded with a part of our Baggage I piloted thro the plains to the Camp I made at which place I intended the portage to end which is 3 miles above the Medesin River we had great dificuelty in getting on as the axeltree broke Several times, and the Cuppling tongus of the wheels which was of Cotton & willow, the only wood except Boxelder & ____ that grow in this quarter, we got within half a mile of our intended Camp much fatigued at dark, our tongus broke & we took a load to the river on the mens back, where we found a number of wolves which had distroyed a great part of our meat which I had left at that place when I was up day before yesterday we Soon went to Sleep & Slept Sound wind from the ____
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Had Yorick trod upon Virgil ’s snake, he could not have looked more surprised.—I am surprised too, cried my father, observing
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

cried Mary, "and I am unable to leave my shop."
— from Miles Tremenhere: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 2 by Annette Marie Maillard

The discovery which was in so remarkable a manner reserved to our own age, is not indeed complete, and leaves much still to be explained.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

Fine old elm-trees shaded the path in front of it, and across the road a broad level meadow stretched away to Walden woods.
— from Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier by Frank Preston Stearns

luding the war) said: "And now let me, Sir, pause on a part of the treaty which awakens human sensibility in a very irresistible and lamentable degree.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

And the day she had tea here with little Miss Sen and the Professor, she was all graces, to be sure.
— from Molly Brown's Senior Days by Nell Speed

“Let me see; after our first day’s run on shore, by some mistake you neglected to come on board at night, with the others.”
— from Up The Baltic; Or, Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Oliver Optic

Even this failed to move him, and up to the last moment she was in doubt as to whether he would forsake her.
— from The Black Diamond by Francis Brett Young

[To BARDOLPH] Let me see thee froth and lime.
— from The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare