“I told you that not even Man Alexander could order me since I gave my love to you,” Copper said smugly as she peered over the edge of the pit, a chunk of lava gripped in one small capable hand.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Mrs. Thrale, having taken occasion to allude to it in talking to me, called it 'The story told you by the old WOMAN.'—'Now, Madam, (said I,) give me leave to catch you in the fact; it was not an old WOMAN, but an old MAN, whom I mentioned as having told me this.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

‘At least (said I), give me leave to wish them such a degree of commerce as may enable them to follow their own inclinations.’—‘Heaven forbid!
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Stay, I guess: most likely, like me you have a grandmother.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But now my days are wellnigh told, My strength is gone, my limbs are old,
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Still, I get my living quite as worthily as many of the guests who grace"—with a light wave of his hand about the great chamber—"this noble habitation.
— from No. 13 Washington Square by Leroy Scott

Science is grave, methodical, logical; with Science then she argues, and opposes reason to reason.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

,’ said I. ‘Good morning, little master!’
— from A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

As an obedient son I gave my life in loyal service.
— from The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865-1900 by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

So I got my linen.
— from At Home with the Jardines by Lilian Bell

To my son Samuel I give my love for alcoholic liquors and my irritable disposition; to my daughter Jane my coarseness of thought and my unwillingness to be restrained in my desires, and also my tendency to commit suicide."
— from What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen

So I give my life to God and His cause."
— from Deborah: A tale of the times of Judas Maccabaeus by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow

See, miss,” and the poor creature showed a small linen bag fastened round her neck by a morsel of string, “I gave my last shilling for this.”
— from The Haunted Room: A Tale by A. L. O. E.

"In this way, you see, I give my little push in the advancement of science.
— from The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells