Give me your answer; i' faith, do; and so clap hands and a bargain.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

She says everybody has been so kind to her since she came here as a bride that she feels as if she were leaving lifelong friends.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

All that is not made in the country, or of its growth, is deemed luxury: a silver chain here as at Berne, is transmitted from mother to daughter.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829 by Various

"Peter!" said Cherry, hardly above a breath.
— from Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Ordinaries are not so common here as abroad, but there are good French ones in Suffolk Street.
— from The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life by S. C. (Sydney Castle) Roberts

John started out with fine pluck and spirit; but in a little while Billy got in some clever hits, and Abe began to exhibit symptoms of great uneasiness.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

( b ) ON THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION Six Clearing Hospitals, at Advanced Base.
— from Organization: How Armies are Formed for War by Hubert Foster

It is only in externals that she comports herself as a Bohemian.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete by Lyndon Orr

It is the ass who does not deserve either reward or punishment who says that something carried him away, and, being weak, he fell.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Complete by Gilbert Parker

There was a Celtic intensity in him which had long ago robbed him of the loose fat, the lazy gait, the apathetic indifference which generally fall to the lot of lads born and brought up as he had been; and now—with his big brown moustache, thick hair, and hazel eyes, and with that subdued determination in his look, which had made the little soubrette call him an Ancient Briton—he was a man whom some would call handsome, but whom most people would admire chiefly on account of the intelligence, firmness of character, and determination written upon his face.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black