Nevertheless, if thou dwellest here some eight days I shall see thee again belike, since thereafter I get me eastward on a hard and long journey not without peril.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

I get so scared that I get mad, every time I hear his voice."
— from His Master's Voice by Randall Garrett

The part that the International Development Organization should take in general mining enterprises is to manufacture all kinds of mining tools and machinery, and to supply them to the miners at low cost, either on cash or on credit.
— from The International Development of China by Yat-sen Sun

In point of fact, Luther’s own doctrines of predestination and grace were a species of unbought indulgences, sure to injure good morals, even apart [ 258 ] from the effect of a free use of the Bible as a working code.
— from A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

What’s the use of saying, for instance, as I have just said, that I give myself entirely to you, and shall be yours always,—that you have my devotion, my highest homage?
— from Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

“I don't think,” she said, “that I grudge my efforts or my time.”
— from The Country House by John Galsworthy