Go in; and tell my lady I am gone, Having displeas'd my father, to Laurence' cell, To make confession and to be absolv'd.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

He then commanded his men to row up to that side, and fastening a cable to one of the staples, ordered them to tow my chest, as they called it, toward the ship.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

H'm! ... that sort of thing mostly comes about through poverty."
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The next morning came, and the self-sacrifice of the woman on the altar of what she was pleased to call her principles was acquiesced in by these two friends, each from his own point of view.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

There are another Kind of Impertinents which a Man is perplexed with in mixed Company, and those are your loud Speakers: These treat Mankind as if we were all deaf; they do not express but declare themselves.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

This day my new tailor, Mr. Langford, brought me home a new black cloth suit and cloake lined with silk moyre, and he being gone, who pleases me very well with his work and I hope will use me pretty well, then Deane and I to my chamber, and there we repeated my yesterday’s lesson about ships all the morning, and I hope I shall soon understand it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[ Of this worst kind of enemies, who praise a man in order to render him obnoxious, the emperor Julian, who had himself suffered greatly by them, speaks feelingly in his 12th epistle to Basilius;—"For we live together not in that state of dissimulation, which, I imagine, you have hitherto experienced: in which those who praise you, hate you with a more confirmed aversion than your most inveterate enemies.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

In a complex sentence the independent statement is called the main clause and the dependent statement the subordinate clause.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

"But I suppose you have found out your mistake, my dear," said Mrs. Cadwallader, "and that is a proof of sanity.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

At all events, Mrs. McNeil came alone to the English camp.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

By degrees and through her tears, Marie confided all that had happened to her since the night of the murder.
— from A Royal Prisoner by Pierre Souvestre

In return, he wrote his name in my book, in the Mughrebbin character, adding the sentence: "There is no God but God."
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

" "I need not tell you, sir," said Ned Land, "that the Red Sea is as much closed as the Gulf, as the Isthmus of Suez is not yet cut; and, if it was, a boat as mysterious as ours would not risk itself in a canal cut with sluices.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

I have altered my mind completely about the marriage.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

It was too late then to cash my check, as the bank had been for some hours closed.
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

I felt the opportunity of doing justice both to Mr. Conway and to myself; and of making Mr. Grenville understand, that if he did not do me justice in the regularity of my payments, he was at my mercy, and must expect those letters would be laid before the public, if not before the House of Commons.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 2 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

"Gracious heaven!" cried Miss Chancellor, at the idea of Ransom's delicacy.
— from The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by Henry James

Since the hour of the arrival of the French, their inferiority has never for one moment ceased, and the English and the Tories have dared to say that France wished to kindle, without extinguishing the flame.
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de