As soon as John came to the bedside, the King said, "My faithful John, I feel that my end approaches, and I have no other care than about my son, who is still so young that he cannot always guide himself aright.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Up, and Sir W. Pen and I in his coach to White Hall, there to attend the Duke of York; but come a little too late, and so missed it: only spoke with him, and heard him correct my Lord Barkeley, who fell foul on Sir Edward Spragg, who, it seems, said yesterday to the House, that if the Officers of the Ordnance had done as much work at Shereness in ten weeks as “The Prince” did in ten days, he could have defended the place against the Dutch: but the Duke of York told him that every body must have liberty, at this time, to make their own defence, though it be to the charging of the fault upon any other, so it be true; so I perceive the whole world is at work in blaming one another.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

While you are getting ready the horses—” “Before partin’!” interrupts Sime with increased surprise, “Surely you mean goin’ along wi’ us?”
— from The Death Shot: A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

I have run on till the bell-man is actually passing; probably you will be in town before Sunday, when I shall see you, but I am compelled by business to go on that day.
— from Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

You would do anything, abase yourself to any degree, to stop the noise of sobbing which is slowly sapping your manhood.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various

Then, gazing at the straw as she withdrew it, she said: "You must talk doctrine with Eldress Abby, Susanna, not with me; but I guess doctrine won't help you so much as thinking out your life for yourself."
— from Susanna and Sue by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Meanwhile, if I might assume such a liberty, I should be glad to invite the reader to the official dinner-table of his Worship, the Mayor, at a large English seaport where I spent several years.
— from Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook by Nathaniel Hawthorne

oh, how I am longing for Saturday, when I shall see you again!
— from A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus by Arthur Conan Doyle

"If you were not so worried, I should scold you for the conclusion of your letter of to-day.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore