Up and to the office, where, though I had a great cold, I was forced to speak much upon a publique meeting of the East India Company, at our office; where our own company was full, and there was also my Lord George Barkeley, in behalfe of the company of merchants (I suppose he is on that company), who, hearing my name, took notice of me, and condoled my cozen Edward Pepys’s death, not knowing whose son I was, nor did demand it of me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The first moment I saw her it overcame me; as I grew to know her better, it almost confused me, and made me jumble in your hearing things of long ago with the present.
— from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

Maybe I shall hand it over to him.
— from They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

They remembered that in padding the lettering they must make it stand high in order to look effective, but they must never work it tight or it would draw.
— from Ethel Morton's Holidays by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

When we went to church the next morning, I saw him in one of the back pews, leaning against the rail, as if he had no strength.
— from The Morgesons: A Novel by Elizabeth Stoddard

'I wouldn't wish to give you so much,' I said, holding it out to him, 'but it is all I have, and I don't like to give you nothing at all, and the darkness coming on.
— from In Wicklow and West Kerry by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

He merely said: "Tear it up if you like, but if you give it to me I shall hand it over to the police."
— from The Bushranger's Secret by Clarke, Henry, Mrs.

M ITFORD ' S H ISTORY OF G REECE , continued by Davenport.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various