Dr. Piderit [903] who has published remarks to the same effect, adds that stammerers generally frown in speaking, and that a man in doing even so trifling a thing as pulling on a boot, frowns if he finds it too tight.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

At length they came to th' broomstaff to me; I defied 'em still; when suddenly a file of boys behind 'em, loose shot, deliver'd such a show'r of pebbles that I was fain to draw mine honour in and let 'em win the work: the devil was amongst 'em, I think surely.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But as for me, on the day when he bides the contest in triumph, may I die either straining my neck in the noose from the roof-tree or tasting drugs destructive of life.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

“But why must I do everything?” said Sabina, washing glasses.
— from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield

He wanted to get me in deep enough so that I couldn't wriggle out, deeper than ten thousand that I could get at any time on my insurance, he wanted me where I couldn't get away—and he got me.
— from The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

"'Mine is breet enough,' said Chirrup, showing a pewter platter, and continued, 'What hast thou?' "'Teed wi' web an' woof, Mine is deep enough,' said Bangle, displaying a musty, dun skull, with the cap sawn off above the eyes, and left flapping like a lid by a piece of tanned scalp, which still adhered.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

He sat down at his father's desk and wrote what he could not have written the day before to save his life, for he now saw himself as the man in Dayton evidently saw him.
— from The Last Penny by Edwin Lefevre

When the apostle Jude 510 would have us to hate garments spotted with the flesh, his meaning is, detestandam essevel superficiem ipsam mali sive peccati, quam tunicae appellatione subinnuere videtur , as our own.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie