EXTERIOR OF THE GREAT MOSQUE AT CORDOVA.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

This maneuver gave me a considerable advantage, and I was able to reach the city quite a bit ahead of him, and as he came tearing after me I jumped for a window about thirty feet from the ground in the face of one of the buildings overlooking the valley.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Gabriel murmured a confused reply, and hastened on.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

M. de R. was the first to break the silence by giving me a cordial embrace.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He did particularly run over every one of the officers and commanders, and shewed me how I had reason to mistrust every one of them, either for their falsenesse or their over-great power, being too high to fasten a real friendship in, and did give me a common but a most excellent saying to observe in all my life.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Give me another chance.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

"It's very well, he's in the rack, I'll get him, and tell it you are here," and having jumbled her father and the umbrella well together in her reply, Jo slipped out of the room to give Meg a chance to make her speech and air her dignity.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Give me a chance to recover from these reiterated attacks.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

At Constantinople, at Pisa, in the cities of Spain, are great mosques and cathedrals, whose grandest columns came from the temples and palaces of Ephesus, and yet one has only to scratch the ground here to match them.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

With expressions of grateful pleasure, the poor woman moved to get me a chair; but, as I saved her the trouble, she busied herself with stirring the fire, and adding a few more sticks to the decaying embers; and then, taking her well-used Bible from the shelf, dusted it carefully, and gave it me.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

I told him all about my visions, my way of prayer, the great graces our Lord had given me, as clearly as I could, and I begged him to consider the matter well, and tell me if there was anything therein at variance with the Holy Writings, and give me his opinion on the whole matter.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint

Get along and weed the garden—do.” “You’ll give me a cup of tea, and tell me more about that dream of yours,” was John’s answer.
— from Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade

Had he given me a cheque his signature would have given him the lie."
— from The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume

"I never had so much trouble," says I, "but if you're feeling liberal give me a chaw of tobacco and let's talk things over."
— from The Man Next Door by Emerson Hough

“Then you'll give me a clear field, eh?” “Certainly.”
— from Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

This war was about to draw off all the men who were not in the army or in the Garde Mobile, and camps were being prepared to receive them.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

"There's no reason I should make myself look like a fright because I don't care for him," she says; "besides, after all that he has said, he ought to say more,—he ought at least to give me a chance to say no,—he shall , too," said the gypsy, winking at the bright, elfish face in the glass.
— from The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"I'll remember it, Mr. Dare; ye're the first gentleman ever noticed me , and I'm much obliged, even if you hadn't given me a cent."
— from Richard Dare's Venture; Or, Striking Out for Himself by Edward Stratemeyer

And I won't care if my wife gets mad and calls me a feeb.
— from The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London

Nay, what is more significant, and more puzzling, Eustace has never given me a clue to whether he knew of the arrangements, the life, we should find here; before our arrival, he had never mentioned that the castle was, to all intents and purposes, in the hands of his kinsmen; nor has he dropped a word in explanation of so extraordinary a circumstance.
— from Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Vernon Lee