Oh! let me see it once again before I die!”—There it is—cue for the band, before I die ,—and off they go.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Open the biographies of the makers of Modern Japan—of Sakuma, of Saigo, of Okubo, of Kido, not to mention the reminiscences of living men such as Ito, Okuma, Itagaki, etc.:—and you will find that it was under the impetus of samuraihood that they thought and wrought.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Stung by straitness of our life, made strait / On purpose to make sweet the life at large.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

"I will tell you all about it, if you will only let me speak.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

They just used to skedaddle off to work—I’ve seen hundreds of ’em, bit of breakfast in hand, running wild and shining to catch their little season-ticket train, for fear they’d get dismissed if they didn’t; working at businesses they were afraid to take the trouble to understand; skedaddling back for fear they wouldn’t be in time for dinner; keeping indoors after dinner for fear of the back streets, and sleeping with the wives they married, not because they wanted them, but because they had a bit of money that would make for safety in their one little miserable skedaddle through the world.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

O Lord, sir, let me live, or let me see my death!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I have long known that Captain Adkins was a scoundrel; and my desire to expose him—overcome by the fact that I have a large family to support, and was afraid of losing my situation—has caused me to pass many a sleepless hour.
— from Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Mayne Reid

"Linden was speaking of their life here—" "I told you, you remember, driving through the woods, of our outer life," Marget said.
— from Sweet Rocket by Mary Johnston

What Crotchets in every Direction! —1. The Germans, or, let me speak more correctly, some of the Germans (and doubtless full of Hoch beer or strong drink), found out some thirty years ago that there were only three men of genius in the records of our planet.
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Thomas De Quincey

Oh! let me see her.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Volume 4 by George Meredith

The ascent to the seat of the president is by a flight of light marble steps; the facing of his bureau is composed of the most costly marble, richly carved.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

Sensation, as we know it in our experience, goes back in the history of the race to the primitive sensitivity (or irritability) of living matter, seen in the protozoa.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth