She arrive, but I cannot stay.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

When I met Sasha after breakfast I could not refrain from grinning and boasting: "'I know!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In compliance with this suggestion, they went and brought back the Argives from Epidaurus, and afterwards reassembled, but without succeeding any better in coming to a conclusion; and the Argives a second time invaded Epidaurus and plundered the country.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

each scale Covering two small winged Seed and being itself Covered in the center by a small thin inferior scale accutely pointed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I was bitterly disappointed, and sitting up on my elbow, came back to reality and my strange surroundings as best I could.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Which of us was right will soon appear, but I certainly did encourage expectations.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

As if all Children, till blown on by the Priest were Daemoniaques: Again, before his entrance into the Church, he saith as before, "I Conjure thee, &c. to goe out, and depart from this Servant of God:" And again the same Exorcisme is repeated once more before he be Baptized.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

As he did so, a layer of bills, in parcels of a thousand, such as banks issue, caught his eye.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

9. Let all such medicines as are taken to stop fluxes or looseness, be taken before meat, about an hour before, more or less, that so they may strengthen the digestion and retentive faculty, before the food come into the stomach, but such as are subject to vomit up their meat, let them take such medicines as stay vomiting presently after meat, at the conclusion of their meals, that so they may close up the mouth of the stomach; and that is the reason why usually men eat a bit of cheese after meat, because by its sourness and binding it closes the mouth of the stomach, thereby staying belching and vomiting.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Many more things he said to me, which I have now forgotten, and indeed I attended very little to them at the time; for inclination contradicted all he said; and, besides, I could not be persuaded that women of quality would condescend to familiarity with such a person as he described.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

[53] The Confessions of St. Augustine , Book I, chap.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

For the graceful willow By the fountain weeping, And the lovely jasmine, All her perfume keeping, Answered when he questioned— Each with envy spoke— "Ah, because I cannot Be an oak."
— from The Pansy Magazine, June 1886 by Various

Their address was sufficiently adulatory, but it contained a suggestion that the trade and commerce of the country were not all that could be desired.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

As it is always the custom to make presents of whatever vegetables, meat, or other commodity prized by the sailor when deep-water ships are becalmed in company, we showed our appreciation by waiting.
— from The Voyage of the Arrow to the China Seas. Its Adventures and Perils, Including Its Capture by Sea Vultures from the Countess of Warwick, as Set Down by William Gore, Chief Mate by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

I threw my skean away before I came here.
— from The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Mr. Shinn added his opinion that the sale was fraudulent, and proposed entering suit to have it set aside; but I could attend to no suit and lost all hope of saving anything from my separate estate.
— from Half a Century by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

See also Bible, Inspiration, &c. —— interpretation, 101 , 194 , 205 , 243 .
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge