Mauritius (British) Port Louis Mauritius Similar to Bourbon.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

When the Gentlemen of the Country come to see him, he only shews me at a Distance: As I have been walking in his Fields I have observed them stealing a Sight of me over an Hedge, and have heard the Knight desiring them not to let me see them, for that I hated to be stared at.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

So please you, leave me; Stick to your journal course.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore— Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;— 'T is the wind and nothing more!"
— from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Wemmick went on; “it happened—happened, don't you see?—that this woman was so very artfully dressed from the time of her apprehension, that she looked much slighter than she really was; in particular, her sleeves are always remembered to have been so skilfully contrived that her arms had quite a delicate look.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Well then, I said, let me suppose that they repeat their question, What account do you give of that which, in our way of speaking, is termed being overcome by pleasure?
— from Protagoras by Plato

At the end Mrs. Mudge spoke with more vigor and punctuation: “Now let me suggest to all of you the advantages of the Theosophical and Pantheistic Oriental Reading Circle, which I represent.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

"Was it, my little maid?" said the good governor, laying his hand on her head, and then he exchanged a keen look with Prudence's father, saying nothing more.
— from Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various

The last mentioned seemed to him to be, in their drill, unquestionably superior to the Italians, displaying a strong esprit de corps , rigid obedience to their officers, and an amount of German impassibility far more adapted to make them bear unmoved the hardships and discouragements of long struggles and reverses than the enthusiasm of the Italians—an enthusiasm which was manifested in a perfect furore of delight throughout Italy on the news of the declaration of war, tidings reaching Henty from every city, of illuminations, of draping with flags, and other celebrations.
— from George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

"She mustn't hear of it till the last moment," said Tredgold, dictatorially; "the quieter we keep the whole thing the better.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various

"You mean that you do not love me?" said the prince gently.
— from Romance Island by Zona Gale

"Let me see that," he said, quickly, and the janitor passed it over.
— from Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days; Or, The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

Let me strengthen the image a little.
— from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Letterfearn MS. says, that at Letterewe "Sir George Hay kept a colony and manufactory of Englishmen making iron and casting great guns, untill the wood of it was spent and the lease of it expired."
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

Let me see”— “The robbers were tied up in the bags,” they all shouted at her.
— from The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney