The greatest monarch now alive may glory In such an honour; how may I deserve it, That am a poor and humble subject to you?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

She's daid now and mah granchillun is scattered.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Trebelli was a noble actress; Maria Gay is splendid, and
— from The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections by Ellen Terry

The explanation—and, for the reader's sake, it is better to spare him Hemsworth's involved narrative, and merely give its substance—was chiefly, that information of Mark O'Donoghue's complicity in the plot of the United Irish party had been tendered to Government, and supported by such evidence that a Judge's warrant was issued for his apprehension and the seizure of all his papers; partly from friendly interference—this was dubiously and delicately put by Hemsworth—and partly from the fact that his extreme youth and ignorance of the real views of the insurgents were pleaded in his favour, the execution of this warrant was delayed, and the young man suffered to go at large.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

The greatest Monarch now aliue may glory In such an honour: how may I deserue it, That am a poore and humble Subiect to you?
— from Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

The greatest monarch now alive may glory In such an honour; how may I deserve it, That am a poor and humble subject to you? KING.
— from King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare

"Oh—of course not," answered Mrs. Goddard in some confusion.
— from A Tale of a Lonely Parish by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

My name is Carrie Norton, and my guardian is Samuel Clark.
— from The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car; Or, The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley by Laura Lee Hope

I speak to her, but she never answers me; generally indeed, she goes away as soon as she perceives that I notice her.
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

“How?” “Get rid of the independent scientific men, load it up so far as Britain is concerned with muck of the colonial politician type and tame labour representatives, balance with shady new adventurer millionaires, get in still shadier stuff from abroad, let these gentry appoint their own tame experts after their own hearts,—experts who will make merely advisory reports, which will not be published....”
— from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells