“Laws, yes, I put ’em there this morning,—I likes to keep my things handy,” said Dinah.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

You want to distinguish yourself in Parliament; every one says you are the finest speaker in England (for your speeches at Oxford are still remembered).
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Yes, I … I wrote to you in Paris.” “Enough, please talk of something else.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Pg 287] General Coffee Consumption Table Country Year Imports (pounds) Exports (pounds) Consumption (pounds) United States 1921[j] 1,345,366,943[k] 41,813,197[k] 1,303,553,746 Canada 1921[l] 17,517,353 20,349 17,497,004 Newfoundland 1920[l] 46,813[m] 46,813 United Kingdom 1921[j] 34,363,728[m] 34,360,128 France 1921[j] 322,419,884 1,154,769 321,265,115 Spain 1920 48,518,854 5,033 48,513,821 Portugal 1919[j] 6,926,575 1,258,271 5,668,304 Belgium 1921[j] 105,365,586 21,541,049 83,824,537 Holland 1921[j] 135,566,943 66,567,702 69,999,241 Denmark 1921[j] 46,571,954 3,449,537 43,122,417 Norway 1921[j] 29,835,544 169,921 29,665,623 Sweden 1921[j] 89,660,766 89,660,766
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The officer was very angry, and said, ‘Yonder impudent priest, endowed with no end of brute force, has attacked my people and me.’
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

While us the works of bloody Mars employ'd, The wanton youth inglorious peace enjoy'd: He stretch'd at ease in Argos' calm recess (Whose stately steeds luxuriant pastures bless), With flattery's insinuating art Soothed the frail queen, and poison'd all her heard.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Partly on the ground I have assigned perhaps, partly because from my having no visible calling or business, it is rightly judged that I must be living on my private fortune; I am so classed by my neighbours; and by the courtesy of modern England I am usually addressed on letters, &c., “Esquire,” though having, I fear, in the rigorous construction of heralds, but slender pretensions to that distinguished honour; yet in popular estimation I am X. Y. Z., Esquire, but not justice of the Peace nor Custos Rotulorum.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Though Laodicea cannot show the same intellectual activity as Hierapolis during the second century, yet in practical energy she is not wanting.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Although the heart weighs a little over half a pound, yet it pumps eighteen pounds of blood from itself, forcing it into every nook and corner of the entire body, back to itself in less than two minutes.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

2: Although as regards the species in the divine intellect its being has no material conditions like the images received in the imagination and sense, yet its power extends to both immaterial and material things.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

He said 'No thank you' in polite English fashion to half-a-dozen dishes, and still the solemn exchange of one clean plate for another went on and on, till he felt inclined to order the servants, with their ill-concealed tolerance of him as the husband of their mem , out of the room.
— from Voices in the Night by Flora Annie Webster Steel

I hadde not bene lettyd by Importune busynes wherfor I eftsones most humblye besech yo ur grace of p ar don and though I am not w i t h yow in p er son yet be ye assured I am and duryng my lyff shalbe
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

"Yes, I planned everything."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various

[Pg 328] Six months ago the woman who is now your wife charged you with being an impostor; with assuming a name and right that did not belong to you; in plain English, said that you had set yourself up as Gabriel Conroy, and that she, who was Grace Conroy, the sister of the real Gabriel, knew that you lied.
— from Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte

over it by way of demi-god—O Belleisle, what kind of France is this; shining in your grandiose imagination, in such contrast to the stingy fact: like a creature consisting of two enormous wings, five hundred yards in potential extent, and no body bigger than that of a common cock, weighing three pounds avoirdupois.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

¶ By the report of H. Knighton it should séeme, that this sect (as he calleth them) mightilie increased, to the no small offense of the lords temporall and spirituall, wherevpon after sundrie complaints, and serious solicitations for the supplanting of them, commissions were granted, and the tenure of them (as it should séeme) though not absolutelie, yet in part executed.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (12 of 12) Richard the Second, the Second Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales by Raphael Holinshed

His cheeks burn--he has lost his last illusion--the whole vulgarity of the temptress to whom he had yielded is pitilessly exposed to him.
— from Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin

“But, of course, if you can't—if it bores you—” Kent seized her arm, a bit roughly, “Have I got to come right out and tell you, in plain English,
— from Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower