So once he has told truth; and this matter seems to be gone off without a plot:
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

To my grief, I am The heir of his reward; [To BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS] which I will add To you, the liver, heart, and brain, of Britain, By whom I grant she lives.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong, to withstand temptations, to economize, to acquire and use skill; in our ability to compete, to succeed in commerce, to disregard the superficial for the real, the appearance for the substance, to be great and yet small, learned and yet simple, high and yet the servant of all.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Becoming greatly excited, he drew him off me, and closely embraced him, but professing at the same time to be greatly shocked; his prick, meanwhile, gloriously stiff, pressed hard against young Dale’s belly.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Yet by this Experiment I satisfied my self that the Reflexion on the concave side of the Glass, which I feared would disturb the Vision, did no sensible prejudice to it, and by consequence that nothing is wanting to perfect these Telescopes, but good Workmen who can grind and polish Glasses truly spherical.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Fra Cipolla, having well dined and after slept awhile, arose a little after none and hearing of the great multitude of country folk come to see the feather, sent to bid Guccio Imbratta come thither with the bells and bring his saddle-bags. Guccio, tearing himself with difficulty away from the kitchen and Nuta, betook himself with the things required to the appointed place, whither coming, out of breath, for that the water he had drunken had made his belly swell amain, he repaired, by his master's commandment, to the church door and fell to ringing the bells lustily.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

But I hope your friend's accounts have been exaggerated; and if such a design is known beforehand, proper measures will undoubtedly be taken by government to prevent its coming to effect.”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

When a guest complained of the fare in the hotel dining room or one of the girls who made up the beds got married and went away, he stamped on the floor and swore.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

The necessary knowledge for a high position in military action is therefore distinguished by this, that by observation, therefore by study and reflection, it is only to be attained through a special talent which as an intellectual instinct understands how to extract from the phenomena of life only the essence or spirit, as bees do the honey from the flowers; and that it is also to be gained by experience of life as well as by study and reflection.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

We thought we would represent the ball given to the marquis and marchioness by the leading citizens of the town.
— from The Librarian at Play by Edmund Lester Pearson

“Indeed, I am not sorry for that, but glad.
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 by Mark Twain

Thus the captain had educated her and had looked after her, and in his own coarse way had proved himself to be generous to a certain extent.
— from The Solitary Farm by Fergus Hume

Mr. Reitz was nominated, and the preamble of Lord Kitchener with the points of the proposal (modified, as will be observed) was thus drawn up, approved of by all, and, on the adjournment of the meeting, forwarded to the British Government.
— from Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet by J. D. (John Daniel) Kestell

What orders had the Beg given his men?
— from The Secret Witness by George Gibbs

Only the Hebrews seemed to be glad and happy.
— from Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

For twenty miles we discoursed about the properties of steam, probabilities of carriages by ditto, till all my science, and more than all, was exhausted, and I was thinking of escaping my torment by getting up on the outside, when, getting into Bishops Stortford, my gentleman, spying some farming land, put an unlucky question to me,—What sort of a crop of turnips I thought we should have this year?
— from The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb