Mr. Bird turned around and walked to the window, and Mrs. Bird burst into tears; but, recovering her voice, she said, “Why do you ask that?
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I will cheerfully join my testimony with that of my brethren, both by nature and in grace, who endeavour to instruct others and to teach their hearts by retracing the ways of God towards them in His providence and His grace.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

We must be burnt for you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If the veracity and honesty of B and C are unimpeached, their testimony as to the fact cannot lawfully be rejected on any ground, except that they may be interested in the result of the trial, and might be benefited by the conviction or the acquittal of the defendant.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

At noon to dinner, where W. How with us, and after dinner, he being gone, I to my chamber again till almost night, and then took boat, the tide serving, and so to White Hall, where I saw the Duchesse of York, in a fine dress of second mourning for her mother, being black, edged with ermine, go to make her first visit to the Queene since the Duke of York was sick; and by and by, she being returned, the Queene come and visited her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Let the magician be brought to me presently.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He said nothing about it all the morning; but before he went away in the afternoon he called me in, and told me that I need not make myself at all uneasy about his daughter’s happiness.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Dolphin my boy, boy, sessa!
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

And to be in doubt as to whether this humour has its genesis in the human body or is contained in the food is what you would expect from one who has—I will not say failed to see that, when those who are perfectly healthy have, under the compulsion of circumstances, to fast contrary to custom, their mouths become bitter and their urine bile-coloured, while they suffer from gnawing pains in the stomach—but has, as it were, just made a sudden entrance into the world, and is not yet familiar with the phenomena which occur there.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Lucien knew nothing of all this, but Berenice and Coralie could not refuse to allow Hector Merlin to see his dying comrade, and Hector Merlin made him drink, drop by drop, the whole of the bitter draught brewed by the failure of Fendant and Cavalier, made bankrupts by his first ill-fated book.
— from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honoré de Balzac

Korokh (Karuj) is mentioned both by Ibn Haukel and Idrisi as being situated three marches from Herat, surrounded by entrenchments, and in the "gorge of mountains," with gardens and orchards and vines.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

I think I know a way to turn all this against Mr. Bassett; but I will not say it, because I want to hear what you advise, dearest.”
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

Beyond that extent again might be beheld long lines of hill and woodland, broken, before the eye reached the faintest line in the distance, by a tall, curiously-shaped hill, known by the name of Harbury Hill, or, as some called it, Harbury Fort, though, to say sooth, scarcely a vestige of a fort existed there, except the broken vallum of a Roman camp, on the short sweet grass of which now grazed some innocent sheep and peaceful cows.
— from Charles Tyrrell; or, The Bitter Blood. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Tiffles flatly refused, at first, saying (which was true) that he could work a great deal better if he had no personal interest in the scheme; but yielded, at length, to the earnest solicitations of Marcus, backed by the emphatic declaration of Miss Minford (through her attorney), that she would not touch a penny of the money unless he consented.
— from Round the Block: An American Novel by John Bell Bouton

After Irving’s mother died, I can see plain enough why you were a lot o’ help to Mr. Bruce; but when he married again you didn’t have any call to look after him any longer; and seein’ he died about the same time poor Annie did, you’ve been free as air these five years.
— from Clever Betsy: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

“It is not only old fashioned,” she had argued with her mother, “but barbaric.
— from Nancy Brandon's Mystery by Lilian Garis

See here how he is qualified, and to what end; he was tempted as we are, suffered by temptations as we do, in all points and things as we are; that he might be bowels, that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest, in things pertaining to God, to make up the difference that is made by sin between God and his people, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan