“My darling child, pray tell me now, “If politics still you’re inclined to?
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

And now my ears were filled with a great roaring as I approached nearer to the crested foam; then feeling that the end was very near, I prayed silently yet fervently that God would comfort my mother in this her new trial, and prepared myself to die.
— from At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens

I am forced to come and ask for news in person since you refuse to have a telephone.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

There has been nothing new in Poketown since you went away, excepting the town pump's been painted once.
— from Janice Day, the Young Homemaker by Helen Beecher Long

"Very likely nothing is positively settled yet," continued Theodore.
— from That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Frances Eleanor Trollope

If God preuent not, I purpose so Yor.
— from Richard II by William Shakespeare

She loved him, but was her present love as intense as the love that had obsessed her whole nature in Paris six years ago?
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

An even more curious instance of prudery came to my notice in Philadelphia several years ago.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

This was no sooner proposed than it was accepted, with no small regret made by the King's own mouth that he had so long despised their counsel; "For," said he, "now I plainly see your words to be true.
— from The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline by John Knox