Now at the Judge's bidding the parish priest mounted the table and proclaimed Thaddeus's determination to the villagers.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

And, dear sir, if my deepest humility will please, permit me to shew it.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

La signora perla ricono la riverisce tanto come anche tutte le altre perle, e li assicuro che tutte sono inamorata di lei, e che sperano che lei prendera per moglie tutte, come i Turchi per contenar tutte sei.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Please pass me that book over on the far corner of the table, the account book with the gray cover.”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

I kissed my hand to him over and over again, as he shone far into my little room; and he, for his part, promised me that every evening, when he came abroad, he would look in upon me for a few moments.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

As to others, who are plain practical men, they have been guiltless at all times of all public pretence.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

East Machias Average price per M. Total.
— from Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

If they are content to advance slowly and by purely political methods there is no knowing who will own this or any government fifty years hence.
— from The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

“For the present, permit me to say that here is a piece of rawhide, and here a jack-knife.
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

Some persons preferred making their own clothes and this privilege was granted; otherwise they were made in a common sewing room.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

At this meal assembled not only the guests in the house and the members of the family of the landlord,—but also many persons living in the village whom it suited to take, at a certain price per month, the chief meal of the day, at the house of the innkeeper, instead of eating in their own houses a more costly, a less dainty, and probably a lonely supper.
— from The Golden Lion of Granpere by Anthony Trollope

Now I will not explain any farther, still less defend, and least of all attack, but simply quote a few lines from one of my friend's poems, printed more than ten years ago, and ask the distinguished gentleman where he has ever asserted more strongly or absolutely the independent will of the "subcreative centre," as my heretical friend has elsewhere called man.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sylvie: souvenirs du Valois SYLVIE: SOUVENIRS DU VALOIS TRANSLATED FROM GÉRARD DE NERVAL BY LUCIE PAGE Portland, Maine THOMAS B. MOSHER 1896 GÉRARD DE NERVAL.
— from Sylvie: souvenirs du Valois by Gérard de Nerval

The persons present must then perform puja in a manner unutterably abominable, and here this most diabolical business closes.
— from Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings