The Broken Arm envited us to his Village and Said he wished to Speak to us before we Set out, and that he had Some roots to give us for our journey over the mountains; I promised to visit him as he wished the day after tomorrow-.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Good Volumnius, Thou know’st that we two went to school together; Even for that our love of old, I pr’ythee Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

“We will take supper together at my casino whenever you please, provided you give me notice two days beforehand; or I will go and sup with you in Venice, if it will not disturb your arrangements.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

that I was the servant, the guardian, the friend, the indispensable fellow-traveller of a creature, young, beautiful, wealthy, but weak, lonely, and insulted!
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And I am fully confirmed in the opinion, that the Persians erred not when they said that the second vice was to lie, the first being that of owing money.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

With that he got upon his feet, took off his hat, and prayed a little while aloud, and in affecting terms, for a young man setting out into the world; then suddenly took me in his arms and embraced me very hard; then held me at arm’s length, looking at me with his face all working with sorrow; and then whipped about, and crying good-bye to me, set off backward by the way that we had come at a sort of jogging run.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

They brought sheep and wine, while their wives had put up bread for them to take with them; so they were busy cooking their dinners in the courts].
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

And if we accept what Origen [218] has with some appropriateness suggested, that Moses the man of God, being, as it is written, "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians," [219] who delighted in geometry, may have meant geometrical cubits, of which they say that one is equal to six of our cubits, then who does not see what a capacity these dimensions give to the ark?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Betty went to see them sometimes, and brought me tidings.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Had any idea prevailed at Nauvoo that "young Joseph" was to succeed to the Presidency of the church, this man, his uncle, would have known it; and would have strengthened his own claims at that time to the right of leadership, by proclaiming himself, as he did afterwards, in 1850, the natural guardian of the one who had been anointed and ordained to succeed to the office of President.
— from Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

Then all the people, both man and woman, of all that country about when they saw this marvelous Star, were full of wonder thereat; yet they knew well that it was the Star that was prophesied of Balaam, and long time was desired of all the people in that country.
— from Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott

When I went to school this morning Juliet Ripley asked, “Where do you think Anna Richards is now?
— from Village Life in America 1852-1872, Including the Period of the American Civil War As Told in the Diary of a School-Girl by Caroline Cowles Richards

If you were to see the wheat-fields of Stark, or the corn on the Scioto, and the whole of the region about Xenia and Dayton, and on the Miami, you would want to emigrate."
— from Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. (Albert Gallatin) Riddle

It was, therefore strange to see the body language of the octogenarian president of Macedonia with his much younger Albanian counterpart.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

Sakr-el-Bahr thrust his way through the press in the galleon's waist; his corsairs fell back before him, making way, and as he advanced they roared his name deliriously and waved their scimitars to acclaim him this hawk of the sea, as he was named, this most valiant of all the servants of Islam.
— from The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

The vessels were unfortunately detained at a place called Attah, until Mr. Lander, accompanied by one or two of his associates, went to see the king.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

I want to say that my conscience has not been clear since, as a member of the prudential committee, I gave my consent to the dismissal of Miss Wetherell.
— from Coniston — Volume 04 by Winston Churchill

It was a fair and pretty country through which the stream threaded its way, with countless windings and twistings; but the rain dimmed and faded its beauties now.
— from The Rival Campers Ashore; or, The Mystery of the Mill by Ruel Perley Smith

So absolute was the stillness, that the voices of fishermen, who dwelt among the rocks, could be heard in conversation, although their forms were diminished by distance to the size of a rook.
— from A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross