Oh, sir, let old Perth now come and rivet these two hands together; the black one with the white, for I will not let this go.”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

So Tom he thanked them very hearty and handsome, and let himself be persuaded, and come in; and when he was in he said he was a stranger from Hicksville, Ohio, and his name was William Thompson—and he made another bow.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

“And I don’t want ever to hear the word ‘romantic’ again, Jane Andrews.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Do but endure only; you need no other regimen play, run, dine, do this and t’other, if you can; your debauch will do you more good than harm; say as much to one that has the pox, the gout, or hernia!
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Then he took a book with pictures in it down from the shelf; there were whole long processions and pageants, with the strangest characters, which one never sees now-a-days; soldiers like the knave of clubs, and citizens with waving flags: the tailors had theirs, with a pair of shears held by two lions—and the shoemakers theirs, without boots, but with an eagle that had two heads, for the shoemakers must have everything so that they can say, it is a pair!
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Know now that we are the Hadionyageonoñ , the Sky People, who have watched over you all this time.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Accordingly, they betook themselves to a lattice and thence, seeing, without being seen, they heard the maid from another lattice bespeak the scholar and say, 'Rinieri, my lady is the woefullest woman that was aye, for that there is one of her brothers come hither to-night, who hath talked much with her and after must needs sup with her, nor is yet gone away; but methinketh he will soon be gone; wherefore she hath not been able to come to thee, but will soon come now and prayeth thee not to take the waiting in ill part.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Not at all to the satisfaction of that good woman of the world, her mother, who sought to hold the advantageous ground of obliging the Boffins instead of being obliged.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The driver takes charge of it often, and page 576 p. 576 when the caller is too hazy to act for himself, carries him sometimes to the door of the house, and rings the bell for him.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

Horatio, of course, was claiming his reward, but the delightful woman told him that she had promised it to [Pg 308] me, so as we glided around together, she every now and then giving me one of those maddening glances out of the corner of her eye, I had an opportunity to tell her how cut up I was when I went down with my car to take her a spin last week and found that Jumpkin had whirled her away in that dreadful old loco-sewing-machine.
— from Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison by Nelson Lloyd

They'd sent over no less than the Grand Old Man to handle the propulsion.
— from Project Daedalus by Thomas Hoover

How exquisite the silent converse that they hold; the soft devotion of the eye, that needs no words to make it eloquent!
— from The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving

Yes; but before papa sowed his wild oats, he was one afternoon in Fiesole, looking over Florence nestled below, when some whim took him to go into a church there, a quiet place, full of twilight and one great picture, nobody within but a girl and her little slave,—the one watching her mistress, the other saying dreadfully devout prayers on an amber rosary, and of course she didn't see him, or didn't appear to.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various