“I came here for the sake of Elizabeth; for myself, if you tell me to leave again to-morrow morning, and never come near you more, I am content to go.”
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Moreover, I understand it not; what meanest thou by the words?" "I know not, Your Majesty," said Allan, shaking his head, "for ofttimes I sing that which I do not clearly understand mine own self.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Mupasángil ka ug pamisíta, sa tinúud naníid ka níla, You make a pretense of visiting them when in truth you are observing them.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Now, young man, we'll have no more flippancy,” old Henry Thompson ordered.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

He’s a nice young man, but every now and again, when he begins talking, you can’t understand a word he’s saying.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Never you mind what I took her for; that’s my look out.’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

‘My DEAR SAMMLE, ‘I am wery sorry to have the pleasure of being a Bear of ill news your Mother in law cort cold consekens of imprudently settin too long on the damp grass in the rain a hearin of a shepherd who warnt able to leave off till late at night owen to his having vound his-self up vith brandy and vater and not being able to stop his-self till he got a little sober which took a many hours to do the doctor says that if she’d svallo’d varm brandy and vater artervards insted of afore she mightn’t have been no vus her veels wos immedetly
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

“No, you men never do consider economy and common sense.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Imām An Jalil nama-nya Imām di laut, Bujang Ransang nama-nya hulubalang di laut, ’Nek Rendak nama-nya yang diam di bawah, ’Nek Joring nama-nya yang diam di telok, ’Nek Jĕboh nama-nya yang diam di tanjong, Dato’ Batin ʿAlam nama-nya yang Dato’ di laut, Bujang Sri Layang nama-nya yang diam di awan-awan, Mala’ikat Chitar Ali nama-nya yang memegang puting bliong, Mala’ikat Sabur Ali nama-nya yang memegang angin, Mala’ikat Sir Ali nama-nya yang memegang ayer laut, Mala’ikat Putar Ali nama-nya yang memegang palangi, Ia-itulah ada-nya: ya Nabi, ya Wali Allah, Tertegak panji-panji Muhammad, geda-geda Allah Aku minta kramat Pawang, Berkat kramat Dato’ Mengkudum 121 Puteh Berkat kramat daulat Sultan Iskandar Sah ada-nya.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Not Mars himself the lord of hosts, nor yet Minerva, even in their fullest fury could make light of such a battle.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Anyhow, whether I go or not, you may be quite sure that I shall keep the matter to myself."
— from Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The two hungry girls did full justice to it, and then Patty said: "Now, Marian, you're a duck, and you mean well, I know; but this is my house and my tea-party, and now you must clear out and leave me to fix it up pretty in my own way."
— from Patty at Home by Carolyn Wells

"No; you must live with me wholly or not at all.
— from The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

But as we were then leaving Koine, and were not yet melted with the grief of absence, I had the courage to resist their demand.
— from Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells

I thought it necessary, You may, be sure, to faire la petite bouche, ,but in spite of my blushes I was obliged to submit to my trunk being taken in and the car sent to the inn just by. . . .
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

“I would stay if it were not very important for me to return to New York, Mr. Tucker.
— from Adrift in New York: Tom and Florence Braving the World by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Never you mind where the money came from; it was an honest purchase.
— from The Exhibition Drama Comprising Drama, Comedy, and Farce, Together with Dramatic and Musical Entertainments by George M. (George Melville) Baker

It is all quite simple and complete and an ideal toward which metropolitan New York may be aspiring but has never reached.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

One of Dr. Clark's old students at a prominent New York Medical University and afterwards his assistant, Dr. Hugh Raymond, was a young physician in whom the older man had extraordinary confidence and for whom he hoped great things.
— from The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook