I imagine they have it not in any great degree, for, though they probably have several ideas distinct enough, yet it seems to me to be the prerogative of human understanding, when it has sufficiently distinguished any ideas, so as to perceive them to be perfectly different, and so consequently two, to cast about and consider in what circumstances they are capable to be compared.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

If you be she, I do entreat your patience To hear me speak the message I am sent on.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[63] se importan de Europa y Estados Unidos, vendiéndose
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"Laird," he said, "I didna expec' YOU!"
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

Keep your eye upon it, throttle it, kill it, stab it, do everything you can to wound it—to impede its progress.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

Sir, I do entreat you, no more, but enjoin you to silence, as you affect your peace.
— from Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson

“And why the devil should I do everything you ask of me, cousin?”
— from Mauprat by George Sand

“Sir, I do entreat you to believe that what I say iss true,” she cried whitely.
— from A Daughter of Raasay: A Tale of the '45 by William MacLeod Raine

How he has succeeded is demonstrated every year by the hundreds of young men and women who there receive for the first time a knowledge and testimony of this Gospel.
— from Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches by Augusta Joyce Crocheron

“The devil it does!” says I. “Did ever you hear that Case had poisoned Johnnie Adams?”
— from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson