Of fancy-work I knew nothing but what I gathered from my pupil and my own observation; but no sooner was I initiated, than she made me useful in twenty different ways: all the tedious parts of her work were shifted on to my shoulders; such as stretching the frames, stitching in the canvas, sorting the wools and silks, putting in the grounds, counting the stitches, rectifying mistakes, and finishing the pieces she was tired of.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Rhipeus and Epytus, most mighty in arms, join company with me; Hypanis and Dymas meet us in the moonlight and attach themselves to our side, and young Coroebus son of Mygdon.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

To be sure, I shall never enough acknowledge the value he is pleased to express for my unworthiness, in that he has prevented my wishes, and, unasked, sought the occasion of being reconciled to a good man, who, for my sake, had incurred his displeasure; and whose name he could not, a few days before, permit to pass through my lips!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Two such sovereigns could not long leave the Moors undisturbed in their corner of the peninsula.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

And o'er the mountains urge into the toils Some antlered monster to their chiming cry.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

Ah, you did not tell enough your darling That God made us in this lower life, Woman for the man, and man for woman, In our pains, our pleasures and our strife.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

So vividly and naturally are these scenes of humor depicted, and with such force and consistency are the characters sustained, that they become mingled up in the mind with the facts and personages of real life.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

As we have already noted, the primary reactions, with a very few exceptions are too diffused and general to be practically of much use in the case of the human infant.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I had heavy arrears to make up in that direction.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“And they lifted me up in the air and put me into the barrel, which was full of water, so that I had a check of the circulation, a chill to my very insides.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It was not without many untoward incidents that he succeeded.
— from The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Arnold Toynbee

Please be very careful not to touch mama until I tell you.
— from The Shadow World by Hamlin Garland

[317] So the "likely Negro girls" were mixed up in the sale of "women's stays" and "hoop-coats"!
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

Indeed, there are not many uproars in this world more dismal than that of the Sabbath bells in Edinburgh: a harsh ecclesiastical tocsin; the outcry of incongruous orthodoxies, calling on every separate conventicler to put up a protest, each in his own synagogue, against ‘right-hand extremes and left-hand defections.’
— from Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson

The fact is, that in consequence of some local circumstances, the meat used in the country is full of cysts, which, getting into the stomach along with the food, generate in the intestines this troublesome guest that must be got rid of from time to time.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

I say "we," because another is mixed up in this business even more seriously than the Kaiser.
— from First Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

Pendant.—A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., and much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture where it is of stone.
— from Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe

Were the heinies mixed up in this thing?
— from Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various

She went on, with growing kindness in her tone: "Now, I'll say to you frankly that I didn't at all like being mixed up in the Knights of Midas ball; if you had been as wise as I have always thought, you might have known it.
— from The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson