Do with him what thou wilt, I give him to thee.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

After having spoken these words in general, he turned himself towards his wife, and embracing her fast in his arms, as, her heart and strength failing her, she was ready to sink down with grief, he begged of her, for his sake, to bear this accident with a little more patience, telling her, that now the hour was come wherein he was to show, not by argument and discourse, but effect, the fruit he had acquired by his studies, and that he really embraced his death, not only without grief, but moreover with joy.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“And they counts my money and tickets, when I gets home, to see if I ’s got the change; and if I han’t, they half kills me.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

How was that?” “When I gave her the first of my kisses she returned it in the Florentine manner, and our tongues met.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the presence of the two witnesses, I gave him the dose, and shook up his pillows, and told him to lie down again quietly and wait.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Yet being upon a pleasant errand, and seeing that it could not be helped, we did bear it very patiently; and it was worth my observing, I thought, as ever any thing, to see how upon these two scores, Sir G. Carteret, the most passionate man in the world, and that was in greatest haste to be gone, did bear with it, and very pleasant all the while, at least not troubled much so as to fret and storm at it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In this way it generally happened that the chariots passed through safely, and the men by whom they were driven were uninjured.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Nouns, pronouns, verbs, articles—each {332} had their separate partition; but I observed, with delight, that when I gave her the verb "to drink," instead of placing it with the other verbs, she put it at once into the compartment she had destined for liquids.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

At this time, the doctrinal views of the various denomina [Pg 194] tions were in general harmony: the standards of the church of Scotland, the declaration of the congregationalists, and the articles of the church of England, are of the same general import.
— from The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West

With which wild words, to show how much she was a woman, and how dependent on the absent hero, she fell upon the neck of her disturbed protegée, and the two wept in great harmony together.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 6, December 1850 by Various

I don't feel no more tired when I get home than I did when I started out."
— from The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Van Vorst, John, Mrs.

This Jasper behaved well, too, when I gave him the command of the Scud ; no lad could have conducted himself more loyally or better.”
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

I got some large alphabets in a box, all the letters separate on bits of bone, and say we was going to WINDSOR; I gave her those letters in that order, and then at every milestone I showed her those same letters in that same order again, and pointed toward the abode of royalty.
— from Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Max had seemed, for some days after our arrival, to be seriously depressed, brooding over his own thoughts; and he seized eagerly upon the work I gave him to do, as if he would make up by service to our people for any injuries he had done the world.
— from Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Ignatius Donnelly

In this yeare, about the 17 of Julie, pope Innocent died, at whose death (being knowen in England) all they that were enimies to king John greatlie reioised, for they were in great hope that his successour would haue rather inclined to their part, than to the kings.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (07 of 12) Iohn the Yongest Sonne of Henrie the Second by Raphael Holinshed

"Nurse must have gone to chant psalms with some Huguenot of her acquaintance," said he to himself; "and Actéon is probably still angry with me for the whipping I gave him this morning."
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas