“Lord, no,” answered she, “and I never took no notice of it to her: for, indeed, as to that, my own poor daughter wasn’t so much to blame as you may think; for she’d never have gone astray, if it had not been for that meddling old parson I told you of.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Thus, for instance, Awsiter, apothecary to Greenwich Hospital, in his “Essay on the Effects of Opium” (published in the year 1763), when attempting to explain why Mead had not been sufficiently explicit on the properties, counteragents, &c., of this drug, expresses himself in the following mysterious terms (φωναντα συνετοισι): “Perhaps he thought the subject of too delicate a nature to be made common; and as many people might then indiscriminately use it, it would take from that necessary fear and caution which should prevent their experiencing the extensive power of this drug, for there are many properties in it, if universally known, that would habituate the use, and make it more in request with us than with Turks themselves ; the result of which knowledge,” he adds, “must prove a general misfortune.”
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

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— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

He had recently read a eulogy on a new method for curing club-foot, and as he was a partisan of progress, he conceived the patriotic idea that Yonville, in order to keep to the fore, ought to have some operations for strephopody or club-foot.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

I put it to you, is this fair?
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

"Not just yet," was the prudent answer; "but perhaps in twenty years, when I am grown a woman, as tall as Mrs. Bretton, I may travel with Graham.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And I put it to you, bein' a fa'r-minded man, and to you, gentlemen all, as fa'r-minded men, ef this isn't so.”
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

She pushed the tickling hair from her face with her arm, and looked at me with tranquil pleasure, as she worked the paste in the yellow bowl.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

BATTERSEA (LATCHMERE, formerly called Lechmore) ALLOTMENTS cover an area of 16¼ acres, and are let to the industrial poor of the parish to encourage habits of industry, the land was applied to the present purpose in the year 1835.
— from All about Battersea by Henry S. Simmonds

I do not know in what shape the practical question may present itself to you; but I will tell you my rule in life, and I think you will find it a good one.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Yes, you have been made the victim of a practical joke, and I will prove it to you.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

The other[19] is an extract from a printed book of Parliamentary Proceedings in the year 1680 containing an angry resolution of the House of Commons in England against dissolving grand juries.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift

And who are you,” True Thomas said, “That you should ride while they must stand? “Light down, light down from your horse o' pride, I trow ye talk too loud and hie, And I will make you a triple word, And syne, if ye dare, ye shall 'noble me.” He has lighted down from his horse o' pride, And set his back against the stone.
— from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling

Now we're going to the theatre this evening, and my plan is that you come in now, have a little supper with us, and then go with us to see the play.
— from A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok

He used to laugh at Plato as conceited; accordingly, once when there was a fine procession, seeing a horse neighing, he said to Plato, “I think you too would be a very frisky horse:” and he said this all the more, because Plato kept continually praising the horse.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius