and stubbornly I beare this crosse; But the'houre Of mercy now was come; He tries to bring Me to pay a fine to scape his torturing, And saies, Sir, can you spare me; I said, willingly; Nay, Sir, can you spare me a crowne?
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

But they as soon shall circumcise my head!
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

“This one is, I think, a sterlet,” said Château-Renaud.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The King sent to her, she must first come and view them: and so she come, and the King went to her, and all friends again.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Then a short, quick run forward—a fault—a check—a try back; and then a slow, steady, confident advance.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

There are some sacred ceremonies from which women are not wholly excluded (see, for example, Nor.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Then he asked his mother for advice, and she said, "Invite all three, and set some cheese before them, and watch how they eat it."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

[430] They are ( shia ), ( shifra ), c e ( shicârè ), ( shee ), e ( sheeè ), b ( sheeidh ) all denoting, spirit, fairy.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

"Hetty Dudgeon has just rung me up, asking me to go to see her this afternoon," she said calmly.
— from The Story Book Girls by Christina Gowans Whyte

There are some such characters, which, like plants, stretch upwards to the light; they accept what nourishes, they reject what injures them.
— from Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

What is this new thing then which thou hast found out, or what is that I have to fear?" Roger changed countenance thereat and seemed somewhat confused, as one who has been caught unawares; but he gat his own face presently, and said: "Nay, Sir Knight, I will tell thee the truth right out.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

Everywhere there are long wide stretches of ground so torn and ploughed by shells that it seems impossible that any single soul could have gone through that awful fire and come out alive.
— from Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France by Gerald Campbell

I came to a shabby settlement called New Castle, at six o'clock, where an evil-looking man walked out from a frame-house, and inquired the meaning of the firing at Hanover.
— from Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend