Refreshed by this little repose, and relieved by my tears, I was proceeding onward, when I was overtaken by a sturdy country lad, who was going to London to see what he could do for himself there, and, like me, had given his friends the slip.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Look to it; Consider, William: take a month to think, And let me have an answer to my wish; Or, by the Lord that made me, you shall pack, And never more darken my doors again."
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

you may leave my premises to-morrow, then; hold your insolent tongue and let me pass."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Let me tell him, gentlemen, that any gestures of dissent or disapprobation in which he may indulge in this court will not go down with you; that you will know how to value and how to appreciate them; and let me tell him further, as my Lord will tell you, gentlemen, that a counsel, in the discharge of his duty to his client, is neither to be intimidated nor bullied, nor put down; and that any attempt to do either the one or the other, or the first, or the last, will recoil on the head of the attempter, be he plaintiff or be he defendant, be his name Pickwick, or Noakes, or Stoakes, or Stiles, or Brown, or Thompson.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Then a lengthy middle strophe is recited, in which all the parts of a canoe are named with two verbs one after the other.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

So home again and to my office, where after doing business home and to a little musique, after supper, and so to bed. 14th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Every pain hath torn thy heart, father-pain, fathers’-pain, forefathers’-pain; thy speech hath become ripe,— —Ripe like the golden autumn and the afternoon, like mine anchorite heart—now sayest thou: The world itself hath become ripe, the grape turneth brown, —Now doth it wish to die, to die of happiness.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

By means of machinery put in motion by water, at fixed times a little man comes forward exhibiting a tablet, which announces the hours.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It's all wrong that a man like you should have these petty worries, particularly with Mrs Holden so in need of the things a little money can do.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

He gaid away thane, and apperit to hir att ane vthir tyme, ane lustie mane, with mony mene and wemen with him: And that scho sanit hir and prayit, and past with thame forder nor scho could tell; and saw with thame pypeing and mirrynes and good scheir.
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray

I approached him and without a word toppled a large mass of rock over the edge of the cliff.
— from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs

In the stricter definitional sense of the word, there is no such thing as "living matter" or "dead matter," as we have before claimed.
— from Life: Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus

We must get through the kitchen-door and fetch water from the well behind.—What, has the fire roused thee at last, Martha?
— from Shameless Wayne: A Romance of the last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe by Halliwell Sutcliffe

He had therefore led them thither at daylight of Tuesday, armed with some Harper’s Ferry muskets belonging to a local militia company.
— from Minnesota, the North Star State by William Watts Folwell

It can scarcely be supposed that a Lord Mayor’s Show was instituted only to be laughed at; yet who would contend that it is of any other use?
— from The Comic English Grammar: A New and Facetious Introduction to the English Tongue by Percival Leigh

These and your tongue and lips make the air in front of you vibrate.
— from Common Science by Carleton Washburne

His family was large, and for some years he did all in his power to live according to his rank in society, for he had married a lady of good family (they had thirty-six quarterings between them), and, like most men in a similar position, he was unwilling to adopt the only safe plan, which is to take boldly a lower place on the ladder.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton