The wofull Dwarfe, which saw his maisters fall, Whiles he had keeping of his grasing steed, 160 And valiant knight become a caytive thrall, When all was past, tooke up his forlorne weed, ° His mightie armour, missing most at need; His silver shield, now idle maisterlesse; His poynant speare, that many made to bleed, 165 The rueful moniments ° of heavinesse, And with them all departes, to tell his great distresse.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

—mente ; es—— it is needful, I must, have to.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

It would never enter their heads, and nothing is more hateful than to have to restrain one’s raptures simply because of the intrusion of some animate trumpery in the shape of a half-deaf old woman or little girl pestering one with questions.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She had been moved from the posture in which I had first beheld her, and now, as she lay, her head upon her arm and a handkerchief thrown across her face and neck, I might have supposed her asleep.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Note that the phrase is affirmative in form although negative in meaning: hasta hoy
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Some day, when nutting, it may hap I may surprise the little chap."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

If, while the healing of this vast sore is progressing, the races are to live for many years side by side, united in economic effort, obeying a common government, sensitive to mutual thought and feeling, yet subtly and silently separate in many matters of deeper human intimacy,—if this unusual and dangerous development is to progress amid peace and order, mutual respect and growing intelligence, it will call for social surgery at once the delicatest and nicest in modern history.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Neither is my horse."
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Please retain this, that in case of necessity I may have a copy.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Do you not believe that with a nod, with a single nod, I might have them all prostrated before my throne?
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1 by Lewis Goldsmith

But now that thou art come, and heaven and earth Are laughing in the fulness of their mirth, A shame I knew not in my heart has birth— —Draw me through dreams unto the end of day!
— from Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris

I've been sitting back here, thinking how nearly I might have missed it."
— from Infatuation by Lloyd Osbourne

It would have been on the way now if Mary hadn’t brought in the whisky.
— from Master of Men by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

NOVEL III. - Mitridanes, holding Nathan in despite by reason of his courtesy, journey with intent to kill him, and falling in with him unawares, is advised by him how to compass his end.
— from The Decameron, Volume II by Giovanni Boccaccio

After some delay the last division of British Regulars—the 29th—were detailed for the service, and now in Mudros Harbour they were waiting in their transports.
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite

Even after the expiration of the three years of public mourning that he had ordained throughout his whole dominions by royal edict, he would never suffer his ministers to speak about any new alliance, and when the Emperor himself sent to him, and offered him the hand of the lovely Archduchess of Bohemia, his niece, in marriage, he bade the ambassadors tell their master that the King of Spain was already wedded to Sorrow, and that though she was but a barren bride he loved her better than Beauty; an answer that cost his crown the rich provinces of the Netherlands, which soon after, at the Emperor’s instigation, revolted against him under the leadership of some fanatics of the Reformed Church.
— from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde

The name itself means 'harbour.'
— from Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore, Mrs.