The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"If your worship had a good memory," replied Sancho, "you would remember the articles of our agreement before we started from home this last time; one of them was that I was to be let say all I liked, so long as it was not against my neighbour or your worship's authority; and so far, it seems to me, I have not broken the said article."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Isabel had reason to believe none the less that as she advanced in life she made more of those concessions to the sense of something obscurely distinct from convenience—more of them than she independently exacted.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

But we still have to explain the contradiction in which Robertson Smith saw an inadmissible logical scandal.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

People come to me, I hear voices and music, and I fancy I am walking through woods or by the seashore, and I long so passionately for movement, for interests . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Lord Steyne made no doubt but that the Baronet had only commenced his career in public life, and expected rather anxiously to hear him as an orator; as they were neighbours (for Great Gaunt Street leads into Gaunt Square, whereof Gaunt House, as everybody knows, forms one side) my lord hoped that as soon as Lady Steyne arrived in London she would have the honour of making the acquaintance of Lady Crawley.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

He walked with the Countess Isabelle beside a smooth and inland lake, such as formed the principal characteristic of his native glen, and he spoke to her of his love, without any consciousness of the impediments which lay between them.
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott

The past experiments seemed decisive; moreover, there was no reason why the population should double: Rome offered neither the attraction of pleasure nor that of gain to be amassed in commerce and industry for those she had not, nor of intensity of social and intellectual life, since of this she seemed no longer capable.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

Aye, 'tis his body——" "There seems plenty of it left, Sergeant, and it looks solid enough—O Lud!"
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol