“Then I think I shall go to bed, for it is past twelve o’clock; but you may call me if you want anything in the night.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I have deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to light; who, in the night overheard me confessing to this man how Don John your brother incensed me to slander the Lady Hero; how you were brought into the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero’s garments; how you disgraced her, when you should marry her.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I was still a-bed, yet unable to use my legs otherwise than awkwardly, and Charles flew to me, catches me in his arms, raised and extending mine to meet his dear embrace, and gives me an account, interrupted by many a sweet parenthesis of kisses, of the success of his measures.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

hyndenmann m. chief man in the community of 100 men , LL 175; 178. hyne = hine as.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I have been in the habit of late of having my coffee made in a common jug provided with a strainer, and I believe there is nothing better.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

" Ottar became one of the most celebrated men in Norway for various good and praiseworthy deeds.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

This which makes monotony careless makes it likely that there is an exchange in principle and more than that, change in organization.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

Later, Ursula would be indignant to see Miss Cassie marching into church from Sunday school with her stocking sluthered down to her ankle, and a grubby knee showing.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

My committee meeting is only just over.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Mr. Chairman, may I return to questions that I was asking Mr. Frazier?
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

At first I thought the whole thing a silly imposture, until the day when a man confronted me in my own house, armed with every proof that I had killed Philip de Mountford in Brussels.
— from The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

[158] Remember me to my father, children, &c. Thus, in haste, I remain, &c. The Mr. Clarke, mentioned in this letter, we suppose to have been Matthew Clarke, the first pastor of the Independent Church at Harborough and Ashley, as he was cast three times into the same prison, and was connected with Mr. Shuttlewood in sufferings, and also in services and enjoyments.
— from Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

Another manufacturer told me chain making is not unhealthy.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

“Perfectly,” said I, (though I remembered nothing about him) and we shook hands in the most cordial manner imaginable.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Senor governor of my soul, this wicked man caught me in the middle of the fields here and used my body as if it was an ill-washed rag, and, woe is me!
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 31 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The most of the songs given here are from my manuscript collection made in Boston and New York among the Russian Jews.
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener

'You must carry me, I can't walk.
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I told him of my love for science, and of my earnest longing to enter the chalk of western Kansas and make a collection of its wonderful fossils, no matter what it might cost me in discomfort and danger.
— from The Life of a Fossil Hunter by Charles H. (Charles Hazelius) Sternberg