“Ye'n sweltered yoursen, I reckon, running that fool's race.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Here they are; they ask nothing from you in return, rather they are forward to labour in your behalf; it will be their pleasure to bear the brunt of battle in voluntary service.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Yet I remember Richardson wondering that I could treat him with familiarity.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Ere departing fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets; Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts, (yet onward ever unfaltering pressing,) Spirit of many a solemn day and many a savage scene—electric spirit, That with muttering voice through the war now closed, like a tireless phantom flitted, Rousing the land with breath of flame, while you beat and beat the drum, Now as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me, As your ranks, your immortal ranks, return, return from the battles, As the muskets of the young men yet lean over their shoulders, As I look on the bayonets bristling over their shoulders, As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward, Moving with steady motion, swaying to and fro to the right and left, Evenly lightly rising and falling while the steps keep time; Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day, Touch my mouth ere you depart, press my lips close, Leave me your pulses of rage—bequeath them to me—fill me with currents convulsive, Let them scorch and blister out of my chants when you are gone, Let them identify you to the future in these songs.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

"Yes, indeed," replied Robert; "and that was a quick shot of yours, Mr. Harold--with a rifle too.
— from The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by F. R. (Francis Robert) Goulding

As regards the general interests of producers, the Government have, through reductions amounting to £50,000 a year in railway rates, made a concession to them at the expense of the general taxpayer, as the railways, after payment of working expenses, return only 2.8 per cent., a sum insufficient to meet the interest upon their cost of construction.
— from Australasian Democracy by Henry de Rosenbach Walker

"Promise me, swear it, that until you are thirty you'll never do anything your instincts and your intelligence don't assure you is right,—really right without any sophistry.
— from The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

“Yes, I remember,” replied Scarlett.
— from Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story by George Manville Fenn

Three years had passed since Osman Digna had captured and destroyed it, but during these three years its roofless ruins had sustained another siege, and one no less persistent.
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Residents for less than three years, if receiving relief, to be charged to the union, 367 .
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

'I'm very glad to see you, Joseph; I feel well acquainted with you,' I replied, returning his cordial greeting.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Afterwards he spent a year in Rome receiving religious instruction.
— from Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. (John Henry) Haaren