Yif me your hond, for in this world is noon, If that yow list, a wight so wel begoon.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

"Oh, I only meant, that what is not in the young lady's favour, namely, her outward appearance, you must have found out at the first moment." Antonie flushed deeply at this malice of Hermann's, which, unfortunately, was only too true, and she did not make any denial.
— from Hermann: A Novel by E. Werner

Yif me your hond, for in this world is noon, If that you list, a wight so wel begoon .
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

That woman is not ignorant that you are the only one I ever loved.
— from The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac

"North," in the archaic form, is now nearly lost; yet in some of the more mystic rituals it occurs as both Wímaiyawan táhna ( Wíkutaiya is "north" in the Yuma), "direction of the oak mountains," and Yä´lawaunankwin táhna , literally "direction of the place of the mountain ranges," which from the lower Colorado and southern Arizona are toward the north, but from northern Zuñi are not so conspicuous as in the other direction, as, for instance, toward the southwest.
— from Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 321-448 by Frank Hamilton Cushing

The word is, "Now I take you."
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth