Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner: I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Well, I must a forgot it.”
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

At that time we found merely a few Indian huts and straggling trees there, under which we rested ourselves for a considerable time, as we found the heat very oppressive.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

So it is not wonderful that Are the priest had good information about ancient events both here in Iceland, and abroad, being a man anxious for information, intelligent and of excellent memory, and having besides learned much from old intelligent persons.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Mr. Dagley himself made a figure in the landscape, carrying a pitchfork and wearing his milking-hat—a very old beaver flattened in front.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

That they must abstain from intoxication has been already remarked by us; for of all persons a guardian should be the last to get drunk and not know where in the world he is.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Too dashed silly, a male and female in our position simply standing eating salmon and cheese at one another without a word.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

This day I did bid Balty to agree with the Dutch paynter, which he once led me to, to see landskipps, for a winter piece of snow, which indeed is a good piece, and costs me but 40s., which I would not take the money again for, it being, I think, very good.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It will be the most precious of all my jewels, but I wonder how you can ask me to take it as a favour, whereas you are doing me a favour I should never have dared to demand.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

M. de Talleyrand had to bear reproaches from every one, and he often said to my husband, bitterly enough: “I find no one but yourself here to show me any friendship; it would take very little more to make those people regard me as a traitor.”
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 1 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat

There must obviously be more actual food in a cottage loaf of white flour containing under 32 per cent.
— from The Story of a Loaf of Bread by T. B. (Thomas Barlow) Wood

If he wish to perpetuate the difference, to form a breed with the peculiarity in question strongly marked, he selects such male and female individuals as exhibit the desired character, and breeds from them.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

She knew so little of solid country people as to suppose that two young men, like Gus Elliot and Van Dam, would make a favorable impression.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

He considers that the present arrangement is the best one until such time as there are more assemblies flourishing in New Zealand, and he would consider the basis for a National Assembly strong enough there to support such an institution....
— from Arohanui: Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand by Effendi Shoghi

Mark you, paganism drew fine lines in morals, long anterior to the era of monotheism and of Moses, and furnished immortal types of all the virtues; yet the excess of its religious ceremonial, robbed it of vital fructifying energies.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

I speak as my dead mother's advocate," said Ishmael, with a strange blending of meekness and firmness in his tone and manner.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

I looked about, made a few inquiries, and by good luck, not long after you went off for your holiday, met just the man I wanted.
— from Will Warburton by George Gissing

As the poet very properly says:— “Too much learning makes a man a fool; I’d have no lad attend too long at school: Give him a taste, then turn him out adrift; In knowledge, at the least, he’s had a lift.”
— from The Comical Adventures of Twm Shon Catty (Thomas Jones, Esq.), Commonly known as the Welsh Robin Hood by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard

I might account for it by adducing similar instances of changes in the names of cities through the bad pronunciation and spelling of foreigners.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various