Many a time have you slobbered your wine in baby helplessness over my shirt; I had infinite trouble with you, but I knew that heaven had vouchsafed me no offspring of my own, and I made a son of you, Achilles, that in my hour of need you might protect me.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Patty, if you’ll promise to love me some time , I’ll stop teasing you now .” “Oh, Philip, I’d do ’most anything to have you stop teasing me now!
— from Patty's Social Season by Carolyn Wells

Therefore it is essential to begin work of this sort early in the morning, and to have yards so constructed as to cause as little loss of time as possible.
— from A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Samuel Butler

"They would be very much astonished to hear you say so."
— from Diana by Susan Warner

"My dears," said Miss Wealthy, as they sat down to dinner,—the bell rang on the stroke of one, and the girls were both ready and waiting in the parlor, which pleased the dear old lady very much,—"my dears, when I made the little suggestions this morning as to how you should amuse yourselves, I entirely forgot to mention Dr. Abernethy.
— from Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

From the sound of voices without, she knew that there must be a dozen or more men about the house, yet she saw none save the red-headed Mr. Jackson, who was evidently on his best behavior, and never approached the cabin door without removing his cap.
— from Brother Against Brother; or, The Tompkins Mystery. A Story of the Great American Rebellion. by John R. (John Roy) Musick

They were in the little meadow above the house, you see.
— from The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower