“Well,” said she to herself, “this is most strange!—After I had got him off so well, to chuse to go into company, and leave Harriet ill behind!—Most strange indeed!—But there is, I believe, in many men, especially single men, such an inclination—such a passion for dining out—a dinner engagement is so high in the class of their pleasures, their employments, their dignities, almost their duties, that any thing gives way to it—and this must be the case with Mr. Elton; a most valuable, amiable, pleasing young man undoubtedly, and very much in love with Harriet; but still, he cannot refuse an invitation, he must dine out wherever he is asked.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

At the beginning we had agreed that I should, if necessary, take five years to prepare for college, but at the end of the first year the success of my examinations showed Miss Sullivan, Miss Harbaugh (Mr. Gilman's head teacher), and one other, that I could without too much effort complete my preparation in two years more.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Sancho took it, and as he was raising it to his mouth he was stopped by the cries of his master exclaiming, “Sancho, my son, drink not water; drink it not, my son, for it will kill thee; see, here I have the blessed balsam (and he held up the flask of liquor), and with drinking two drops of it thou wilt certainly be restored.” At these words Sancho turned his eyes asquint, and in a still louder voice said, “Can it be your worship has forgotten that I am not a knight, or do you want me to end by vomiting up what bowels I have left after last night?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"I want to get a situation, uncle, so that I may earn some money," said Tom, who never fell into circumlocution.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

But old authors say that although the girl loves the man ever so much, she should not offer herself, or make the first overtures, for a girl who does this loses her dignity, and is liable to be scorned and rejected.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

“I'm Miss Ettie Shafter, Mr. Shafter's daughter.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sancho took it, and as he was raising it to his mouth he was stopped by the cries of his master exclaiming, "Sancho, my son, drink not water; drink it not, my son, for it will kill thee; see, here I have the blessed balsam (and he held up the flask of liquor), and with drinking two drops of it thou wilt certainly be restored."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The material is ground with water under the heavy edge runner stones, it then proceeds to a series of horizontal mills, each succeeding mill set closer than its fellow, and is further and further ground to fineness with water.
— from Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men by George Terry

"Y ou are the fellow that stole the money Ethan sent me," squealed Miss Larrabee, as I entered the office.
— from Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants by Oliver Optic

For each breath of hilltop air, each emerald of moss, each shining mahogany surface in the room, repeated to him that he had found the Grail, whose other name is love.
— from The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis

Or dost thou place Throughout the world, for thy mysterious ends, Some ministering swords for civil war?
— from Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

En dough you done jump on me en skeer me scan'lous,
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

Mr. Edgar sent me some violets, but I had time to give them to the chambermaid before Uncle came in.
— from Seeing France with Uncle John by Anne Warner

Mr. E. Sollas Mr. Sowden Mr. A. Sowden Dr. W. D. Spanton Mr. Russell Stephenson
— from The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : Letters by Rayleigh, Clara, Lady

Indeed, there are no works in the whole empire, modern or ancient, that are so much esteemed, so much studied, and I may perhaps add, so little comprehended, as the five classical books collected and commented upon by their great philosopher Cong-foo-tse , who lived about 450 years before the Christian æra; and these certainly are very extraordinary productions for the time in which they were written.
— from Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

Their system of wireless telegraphy was most efficient, so much so that one day at 2 P. M. I was told by a native of an engagement that had taken place at 10 A. M. in a distant part of the island, remote from the telegraph stations.
— from An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China by Emily Bronson Conger