This, I must confess, will bring a man under the black rod, and set him in danger of eternal damnation (Heb 6:7,8; 10:8,9).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

This, I must confess, will bring a man under the black rod, and set him in danger of eternal damnation; Heb. vi. 6: chap.
— from The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan

I must run and see he is doing as I told him.
— from How the Garden Grew by Maud Maryon

Marchmont rose and shook hands, "It doesn't matter to me now if they are," he said, laughing.
— from Quisanté by Anthony Hope

Instead of running after swift rabbits and spending hours in digging out mice, he fell into the easy habit of catching the fat, stupid chickens and ducks that could be picked up at any farm yard without his expending much energy.
— from Red Ben, the Fox of Oak Ridge by Joseph Wharton Lippincott

I really am so hoarse, it distresses me so to be pressed to sing; besides, upon my word, I have quite left off singing.
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth

This is a corollary of the former, of the Reason or rate of a Parallelogramme with a Triangulate; and it needeth no Page 146 [146] farther demonstration; but a ready and steddy hand in describing and working of it.
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus