I shall be back in good time to-morrow—but before I go I should like that little business-formality, which I spoke of this morning, to be settled.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“But I guess there’ll be another little picnic soon.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

That being in good time done we met at the office and there sat all the morning.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Bear with a wretch, Lavinia, bear with a wretch, ma'am, who feels the noble sacrifices you make for him, but is goaded almost to madness,'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

quebrar t break; i go bankrupt; —do bankrupt.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

2 [A; b(1)] block in games to afford a good shot for the teammate.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As we touched our glasses together, my legendary friend made himself known to me as Mr. Bela Tiffany, and I rejoiced at the oddity of the name, because it gave his image and character a sort of individuality in my conception.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

That Alderman Backewell is gone over (which indeed he is) with money, and that Ostend is in our present possession.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At each revolution, their pay and privileges were augmented; but their insolence increased in a still more extravagant degree; they envied the fortune of their brethren in Gaul, Spain, and Africa, whose victorious arms had acquired an independent and perpetual inheritance; and they insisted on their peremptory demand, that a third part of the lands of Italy should be immediately divided among them.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Phat did they be after takin'?" "This safe, here, has been looted, and a small box that contained sixty-four thousand dollars' worth of bonds is gone.
— from The Rover Boys in Business; Or, The Search for the Missing Bonds by Edward Stratemeyer

Beat hard and bake in gem pans in a quick oven.
— from Good Things to Eat, as Suggested by Rufus A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc. by Rufus Estes

As he rode through the station the mess-houses were still alight, and the gay voices of the guests who had been dining at a large bungalow, bowered in gardens, reached his ears distinctly.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel

"Under the husk of the mediaeval system there is revealed a continuously growing antique-modern kernel, which draws all the living constituents out of the husk, and finally bursts it" (Gierke, Deutsches Genossenschaftsrecht , vol. iii.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

But there is also a scent of broken-off birch-leaves and the seashore; there is a sound of Sunday bells and organs, the attraction of new clothes, white linen, and a bath in green sea-water.
— from Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts by August Strindberg

And then, I am afraid I was very naughty, but I could not help crying just a little when I found you had not come; but perhaps Lady Keith may be better, and you may come before I go into court to-day, and then I shall tear up this letter.
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

But in general the war hasn't so far developed very big men in any country.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

The dam must be regulated to those changing moods, or the benefits it gives could not be relied upon.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

Some day a future Stevenson will immortalize it in verse something after this fashion, The Tutti-Frutti Tree so bright, It gives me fruit with all its might, Apples, peaches, pears and quinces, I’m sure we should all be happy as princes.
— from Neither Here Nor There by Oliver Herford

The king took to him all the men in both islands, giving up to the queen the women, to become her subjects.
— from Adventures in Southern Seas: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by George Forbes