Tarring the stays is more difficult, and is done by an operation which the sailors call "riding down."
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I am gratified, of course, that they are happy; but I trust that they are profitable, as well—otherwise I should have failed signally in my duty.”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

“How could I have said it more directly then?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

While setting down my figures, methought I was still at Chambery, still in my days of happiness—how far had I to look back for them!
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She is my daughter's property, and I have no right to sell her."
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

He put me off his knee, rose, and reverently lifting his hat from his brow, and bending his sightless eyes to the earth, he stood in mute devotion.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

He advised getting me on board the boat, if possible; if not, I had better keep very still in my den, where they could not find me without tearing the house down.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

To which the other answered, wild With anguish, "Sir, I must decline— I loved a child—I have but one— I have!
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

My own opinion is, that she's either sick, or if God hasn't said it, maybe dead.
— from The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

Now when two tones, which we will for clearness suppose to be simple, unaccompanied by partial tones, sounding together, have vibration rates in simple ratios to each other, the air- waves set in motion do not interfere with each other, but combine into a complex but homogeneous wave.
— from The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Puffer Howes

Well, I see I must do all the courting.
— from Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte

To all which I shall speak something in my discourse upon these words; and, therefore, to come to them: 'I AM NOW READY TO BE OFFERED.'
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

"First," said Binder, sadly, "I must deliver my painful message to Count Bartenstein."
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

“In my free and unrestricted spirit I moved deep into the substance of that world, below all the total ruin, far below.
— from Sweet Their Blood and Sticky by Albert Teichner

I can stand in my door and see over all of them.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

the winter of 1808-9) when I became a personal resident in that district; and, indeed, from this era, through a period of about twenty years in succession, I may describe my domicile as being amongst the lakes and mountains of Westmoreland.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey