At Cambridge, “just SHAVING through,” or “making a SHAVE ,” is just escaping a “pluck” by coming out at the bottom of the list.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The stranger stretched out his hand to the old man, and said, "I want nothing but to enjoy for once a country dish; cook me some potatoes, in the way you always have them, and then I will sit down at your table and eat them with pleasure."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

They would feel it a relief if they might bury it out of their sight by popping it into their own mouths and swallowing it down; and they are really made happy if the person on whose plate it lies unused suddenly breaks off a piece of toast (which he does not want at all) and eats up his butter.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Even such a husband Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He readily undertook to engage my father’s concurrence in this little delay; and I besought him, at the same time, to make use of his influence to obtain me a second interview, and to represent the deep concern I felt in being thus banished his sight.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

A party of filibusters from Zorah and Eschol captured the place, and lived there in a free and easy way, worshiping gods of their own manufacture and stealing idols from their neighbors whenever they wore their own out.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Of course, when the miller talked of "mapping" and "summing" in a vague and diffident manner, Mr Stelling had set his mind at rest by an assurance that he understood what was wanted; for how was it possible the good man could form any reasonable judgment about the matter?
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

They went on gradually, made their own money and saved it; and this is the best way to acquire a fortune.
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

I never get on when I think of myself alone, so it will help me to work for you, don't you see?
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Every good housewife knows that there is a world of truth in the old maxim, "A stitch in time saves nine."
— from The Road and the Roadside by Burton Willis Potter

"That is, I love my singing, and the thought of making a success is delightful to me.
— from Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris

The boy, with proudly uplifted head, strode toward the old man and said: "I shall accompany you.
— from The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I by Jules Lermina

The discoveries made on the north-west coast by England, though kept secret till after the close of the war, were by no means unknown to our merchants and sailors, in whom the laudable desire to profit by every avenue the ocean might throw open to honest enterprise and skill, was inspired and increased by a condition of national freedom.
— from The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 by Samuel Adams Drake

He boils down the classic form to one movement and, so it seemed to my hearing, he begins developing his idea as soon as it is announced.
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

You had to go to old master and say, "I want to go to such and such a place."
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

Toby stepped toward the noisy crowd, held out his hand gravely to the old monkey, and said, in tones of heartfelt sorrow: “I felt awful bad because I thought you had gone off an' left me, when you went off to find the other fellows.
— from Toby Tyler; Or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis

"Well, well," exclaimed the Duke impatiently, "the Queen will one day discover her error in having ventured to offer me a slight in order to gratify those by whom she suffers herself to be governed.
— from The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII — Volume 2 by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

The milk was found to be of a yellowish colour, resembling that of colostrum or beestings, more thick, as well as sweeter and more savoury than the ordinary milk: a superiority it derives from the concentration it has undergone.
— from The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years, 2nd ed. A work published by the order of the French minister of the interior, on the report of the Board of arts and manufactures by Nicolas Appert