When she got up she exhaled such a strong odor of perfume that it almost made me feel faint.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Analogy with the accuracy and definiteness of mathematical combinations gives us such expressions as calculate , reckon , account for ; and even reason itself— ratio .
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

" Because we got up so early and afterwards did nothing, that day seemed very long, the longest day in my life.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And for that I am sorry, because without our assistance little Ozma will never be rescued and restored to her rightful position as Queen of the Emerald City" "Do not let us give up so easily," said the Pumpkinhead.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Bisag way gilagut mutan-aw giyud ug sini, Even when there is no money for food, she has to go to the show.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The hostess, who had found me generous, gave us some excellent game and some very fine fish; her daughter served us.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“If you are going to marry a minister,” said Aunt Jamesina, picking up Joseph and her knitting and resigning herself to the inevitable with the charming grace that made her the queen of housemothers, “you will have to give up such expressions as ‘dig in.’
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I pray thee, get us some excellent music, for tomorrow night we would have it at the Lady Hero’s chamber window.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

“Mr. Andrews has given us some excellent volumes of Church lore, but none quite so good as this.
— from Literary Byways by William Andrews

In all cases when studies have been grafted upon sewing, encourage the graft .
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 08, August, 1889 by Various

Myriads of mosquitoes gave us something else to think of, for they were exceedingly ferocious and persistent, driving us to a high bluff where a smudge was built to fight them off.
— from A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

“I've kept you up shamefully,'” she said at last, “and you get up so early.
— from K by Mary Roberts Rinehart

That commonest of all things, the mysterious force which makes matter live and glow under spiritual emotion, and changes the vibrations of a nerve, or the undulations of the grey brain, into hope and love and faith, eludes the scalpel and the microscope.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

How happy when it could get under some effectual Protector, of the Liegnitz line, of the Austrian-Bohemian line, and this or the other battering, just suffered, was to be the last for some time!—Here again is a battering coming on it; the first of a series that are now imminent.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

Do you propose to give up so easily to a girl's bare word!
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

The boys had arranged to sleep aboard the professor’s boat, and Juarez was awaiting the return of Jo and Tom, who had gone upon some errand.
— from Frontier Boys in the South Seas by Wyn Roosevelt

The next time Mr. Peck calls I'll tell him how much you're stuck on him, and then maybe he'll get up spunk enough to propose to you."
— from Fame and Fortune Weekly, No. 801, February 4, 1921 Stories of boys that make money by Various

His mamma was very angry with him, but after giving him a severe scolding, she said she would not punish him this time, as he had tried to repair the damage done by getting up so early, and also
— from Carry's Rose; or, the Magic of Kindness. A Tale for the Young by Cupples, George, Mrs.