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Then dropping his voice and speaking in English, "As for me, I shall go out with the ambulance to-morrow morning.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
To deprive myself of the right to the money I shall go out from here five hours before the time fixed, and so break the compact....” When the banker had read this he laid the page on the table, kissed the strange man on the head, and went out of the lodge, weeping.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
[Footnote: The precept “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” has no true foundation but that of conscience and feeling; for what valid reason is there why I, being myself, should do what I would do if I were some one else, especially when I am morally certain I never shall find myself in exactly the same case; and who will answer for it that if I faithfully follow out this maxim, I shall get others to follow it with regard to me?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No matter, I shall go out.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud
During the period that the Duc de Bassompierre passed in the Bastile--where he remained for twelve long years--when his companions, in their dreams of liberty, said to each other: “As for me, I shall go out of the prison at such a time,” and another, at such and such a time, the duke used to answer, “As for me, gentlemen, I shall leave only when Monsieur du Tremblay leaves;” meaning that at the death of the cardinal Du Tremblay would certainly lose his place at the Bastile and De Bassompierre regain his at court.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
In Munich I saw gray old women pushing trucks up hill and down, long distances, trucks laden with barrels of beer, incredible loads.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain
It does not matter: I shall get other pupils by-and-bye."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
"All my life, Nastenka," I answered; "all my life, and it seems to me I shall go on so to the end."
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
" Volontiers , Madame," I said, going out on to the verandah.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
The last man I saw getting off was a fireman.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July
If I take you away now, Monica, I shall give occasion for people to say that I am afraid to trust my wife in any place where she may meet Fitzgerald.
— from Monica: A Novel, Volume 2 (of 3) by Evelyn Everett-Green
He stood a moment in silence going over it all.
— from The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch by Henry Wallace Phillips
But they told me I should go on to Laredo, if I expected to see any campaigning— There is no fighting nor is any expected but they say they will give me a horse and I can ride around the chaparral as long as I want.
— from Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis
I am not real bad in my heart, I know I am not; and if you would be a little patient with me and help me, I shall get over my silly ways.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
That miscegenation is still going on in an unknown degree heightens the determination that it shall at least be put under the ban of law; the very danger makes the South more determined that the races shall be kept separate.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart
I need not tell any English Reader at this Day the meaning of Smith , Word , Son , and Good ; but if I tell them that these are Saxon Words, I believe they will hardly deny them to be essential to the modern English , or that they will conclude that the difference between the old English and the modern is so great, or the distance of Relation between them so remote, as that the former deserves not to be remember’d: except by such Upstarts who having no Title to viii a laudable Pedigree, are backward in all due Respect and Veneration towards a noble Ancestry.
— from An apology for the study of northern antiquities by Elizabeth Elstob
The migration is still going on.
— from A Short History of Wales by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir
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