Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?” “Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming, And that a strange one too, which did awake me; I shak'd you, sir, and cried; as mine eyes open'd, I saw their weapons drawn-there was a noise, That's verily.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

MY DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER, I have so much time upon my hands that I must write on, to employ myself.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Home and found much business to be upon my hands, and was late at the office writing letters by candle light, which is rare at this time of the year, but I do it with much content and joy, and then I do please me to see that I begin to have people direct themselves to me in all businesses.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The coachman whipped up his steeds afresh, but nothing came of it, and Uncle Mitai had proved useless.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

She put her hand, which was a comfortable hand though roughened by work, upon my hands, one after another, and gently took them out of my hair.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

My one hope now was to return undetected to the quarters of Dejah Thoris and learn what fate had overtaken her, but how to do it with these great monstrous thoats upon my hands, now that the city probably was aroused by the knowledge of my escape was a problem of no mean proportions.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Take the bundle from under my head, and open it.”
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

When man’s hope was thus turned to rest upon man, he found that all the Titans had followed him.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But the good understanding between us, and the friendly and familiar intercourse I have successfully endeavored to preserve, will, I doubt not, predominate over any transient disgust that the measures of the Union may have heretofore excited in his mind, and enable me to procure an interview with him at any time and place not particularly inconvenient.
— from Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795 by William L. (William Leete) Stone

Manifold adversities could not fail to impress some mark of sorrow upon my heart, which is at least a guard against sanguine illusions.
— from Select Speeches of Kossuth by Lajos Kossuth

My knapsack weighed a ton and I was so sick that I could not hold up my head, yet dared not fall out for fear I should get lost.
— from Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment by John G. B. (John Gregory Bishop) Adams

Then it gave two or three more raucous squawks, ran toward the fence, flew over it, ran across the street, under Mr. Higgins's fence, and joined his other Black Minorca fowls that were seeking their breakfast in the side yard.
— from The Librarian at Play by Edmund Lester Pearson

It was also submitted to President Aley, who approved it and congratulated us most heartily upon the formation of the Society.
— from The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 by Various

He walked on the platform and spoke a few words about the unknown men he came to get funds to decently bury, of the women away where the starlight was twinkling over cabin and home, of those who waited, listening for a step; of those who were never again to see the men they loved.
— from Historic Fredericksburg: The Story of an Old Town by John T. (John Tackett) Goolrick

When Ruth returned and entered the big and friendly kitchen after ushering Mr. Hammond Into the sitting room again, she found the twins eagerly listening to and talking to Miss Hazel Gray, who was leisurely eating a late breakfast at the long table.
— from Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures; Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund by Alice B. Emerson

There is a hood of red hot iron upon my head.
— from Calvary: A Novel by Octave Mirbeau