`This passed forth, til now, this other day, It fel that I com roming al allone 555 Into his chaumbre, and fond how that he lay Up-on his bed; but man so sore grone Ne herde I never, and what that was his mone, Ne wist I nought; for, as I was cominge, Al sodeynly he lefte his compleyninge.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

“Say no more, Adam, say no more,” said Seth, gently, though his voice told that he spoke with some effort; “Mother's in the right.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

But we may say, speaking generally, that fire is that part of this nature which is inflamed, water that which is moistened, and the like.
— from Timaeus by Plato

You know there are two horses of mine standing idle in the stable which are quite at your service; if you wish to send a messenger into town, my servant shall go directly, but I think the best plan will be for you to allow me to drive you over in my dogcart, and as you may not like coming home in the dark, I shall come back for you to-morrow at any hour you may fix."
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

But what were my feelings when Matrona Semyonovna suddenly got up and went into the next room!…
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

G. B. Shaw Sir A. Conan Doyle Miss May Sinclair Sir Gilbert Parker
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

At Sheppard's age I had already begun to take the duties of a man upon my shoulders.'" Sheppard giggled uncomfortably, and Dorothy laughed outright.
— from Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner

And to the man it did occur That he might sell some goods to her.
— from Poems by Clara A. Merrill

You go to movies, see show, gat all kinds fun—[His eyes hard with hatred.]
— from Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill