They also gave us a note of directions about the way, for our more sure finding thereof; but therein we have also forgotten to read, and have not kept ourselves from the paths of the destroyer.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

A slight change in any one of these adjustments gives us a new sound which is akin to the old one, because of the continuance of the other adjustments, but which is acoustically distinct from it, so sensitive has the human ear become to the nuanced play of the vocal mechanism.
— from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

the author gives us a number of capital detached stories of a most irritating abruptness.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, February 9, 1895 by Various

I raising her by the arms got up, and not knowing what might be the information—perhaps the Queen of England might be ill or dead, and it might be that England wished to make use of her to place her person in safety or her enemies in surer custody.
— from The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician by Samuel Cowan

[Pg 73] suddenly to a gallop, understood; and now began a race between bow and beast.
— from Robin Hood by Paul Creswick

What is implied in that great word by which the Almighty gives us a name and a place as of sons and [Pg 296] daughters?
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

A sow, which was a thin, long-legged animal (one of the ugliest of the New Forest breed), when very young conceived so great a partiality to some pointer puppies that a gamekeeper upon a neighbouring estate was breaking, that it played, and often came to feed with them.
— from A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals by Percy J. Billinghurst