Well, Madam, said Palamides, I trust to your promise, and if ye will abide here half an hour I shall bring her to you.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

I handled a number of bonnie wee Shetland ponies in the three years I drove the hutches to and from the pitshaft.
— from Between You and Me by Lauder, Harry, Sir

She found a deeper and more satisfying pleasure in telling the younger maids what she thought of them when they asked and obtained leave to go out for the afternoon, and in making scathing remarks about their frocks and hats as they passed through the kitchen to reach the area door.
— from Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 by George A. Birmingham

The unimagined value of a middle name suddenly presented itself to the young man's mind, and his conscience slipped behind the camellias and made no protest.
— from A Republic Without a President, and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

An engine so powerful, so mighty to aid, So simple in structure, so readily made, A helper so potent in training the young— 'Tis meet that thy praise by the muse should be sung; For though sages may reason, and orators talk, They can ne'er make their mark without blackboard and chalk.
— from 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by Benjamin Adams Hathaway

But in the statute passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of William III., which finally secured the ascendency of the Protestant religion in that country, and made other provisions for the rights and liberties of the subject, it was enacted that judges' commissions should be made during good behavior, and that their salaries should be ascertained and established; but it was made lawful [68] for the crown to remove them upon the address of both houses of Parliament.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

"Cable for Miss Marshall," he said, presenting it to the younger lady with a bold, familiar look of admiration.
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“I should prefer it, to tell you the honest truth,” I replied, “for I have no pleasure in our present life.”
— from The Privateer's-Man, One hundred Years Ago by Frederick Marryat

"Allow me, sir, to conclude with saying that, not only as a Chairman, but as a man and a Christian, I have sincere pleasure in transmitting to you the enclosed resolution, and am "Your most obedient, "D. CALCUTTA.
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839

But Socrates’s prison is the thing you dread; and therefore truth must want a patron; but certainly, as a wise man, you ought to despise death in competition with truth; and you had fallen much more honorably by speaking well of truth, than for speaking ill of Antony; nor will you ever rise to that height of glory by your Philippics, as you would have done by laboring to undeceive the world, and dispute the people into their senses.”
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler