Let me tell you, an I had the shaping of things in this world, ye should all three have been clothed in the finest silks, and ride upon milk-white horses, with pages at your side, and feed upon nothing but whipped cream and strawberries; for such a life would surely befit your looks.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Everybody sings out, “Sold!” and rose up mad, and was a-going for that stage and them tragedians.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Ayawg saylui ang rúsas ug magtubig ka sa mga tanum, When you water the plants, don’t forget the rosebush.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We think of Smollett, generally, as a rambling storyteller, a rational, unromantic man of the world, who fills his pages with his own oddly-metamorphosed acquaintances and experiences.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The earl recommended it to her strongly, and reckoned up many excellent achievements of King Olaf's.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Some time or other that, too, will present itself before the tribunal of the world, but, for many and weighty reasons, I do not venture to take such a responsibility upon myself now.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

When Cassibelan heard of this, and had formerly taken many other losses, and found his country sore wasted, and himself left almost alone by the defection of the other cities, he sent ambassadors by Comius of Arras to Cæsar, to intreat with him concerning his own submission; the which Cæsar did accept, and taking hostages, assessed the realm of Britain to a yearly tribute, to be paid to the people of Rome, giving strait charge to Cassibelan that he should not seek any revenge upon Mandubrace or the Trinobantes, and so withdrew his army to the sea again.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

To public notice, with reluctance strong, Did I deliver this unfinished Song; Yet for one happy issue;—and I look With self-congratulation on the Book 5 Which pious, learned, Murfitt saw and read;— Upon my thoughts his saintly Spirit fed; He conned the new-born Lay with grateful heart— Foreboding not how soon he must depart; Unweeting that to him the joy was given 10 Which good men take with them from earth to heaven.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

Everybody sings out, "Sold!" and rose up mad, and was a-going for that stage and them tragedians.
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

To obtain admission it was necessary for him to attend a preparatory school, and, relying upon Mr. Gay's description of its advantages, Andover was selected.
— from Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks by Charles Felton Pidgin

He was so vexed that he scarcely answered anything; but after supper told a very long story, all reflecting upon me.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

I started, and rose upon my elbow to listen.
— from Dead Man's Rock by Arthur Quiller-Couch