Meg didn't, Jo won't, Beth can't yet, so I shall, and make everything okay all round.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

All my strength, all my entreaties, were powerless to move him from the place.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Mas yendo y viniendo días Some things as days come and go, se hundirán unas tras otras, one by one, sink again mientra en pie estaréis vosotras, while yours will remain póstumas memorias mías.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

And so I go about the world, obedient to the god, and search and make enquiry into the wisdom of any one, whether citizen or stranger, who appears to be wise; and if he is not wise, then in vindication of the oracle I show him that he is not wise; and my occupation quite absorbs me, and I have no time to give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god.
— from Apology by Plato

Knowing that your Eggs were as safe as if they were locked in a bank vault and the fact that you could watch so many curious things going on made setting a most entertaining occupation.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Some of Captain Jim's adventures had such a marvellous edge that Anne and Gilbert secretly wondered if he were not drawing a rather long bow at their credulous expense.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But, before you go away, you must give me my spectacles and my ear-trumpet again."
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Suppose I am now in safety at land, and would willingly reap some pleasure from this consideration: I must think on the miserable condition of those who are at sea in a storm, and must endeavour to render this idea as strong and lively as possible, in order to make me more sensible of my own happiness.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Women and children shrieked, and men encouraged each other with noisy shouts and cheers.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The savages, enraged at the broken faith of the Spaniard, immediately swept down upon the little settlement and murdered everybody there except the betrothed girl, whom they carried off into captivity.
— from The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway by Henry Inman

A song and music ended the show.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

Not long before the holiday my eyelids became terribly swollen, and my eyes were quite closed up.
— from In the World by Maksim Gorky

"This socialism, and maybe even these here International Workers of the World, may pan out as a new kind of religion.
— from Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Sinclair Lewis

The story of an obscure outlaw, who chased deer and took purses in a northern forest five hundred years ago, has been investigated with the painstaking sagacity of a Niebuhr; and a strong light has been unexpectedly thrown on the state of public sentiment and manners existing at that period.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 by Various

And that the sayde Governour and companie of Marchantes of the Leuant, or the greater part of them for the better gouernement of the sayde fellowshippe and companie, shall and may within fortie dayes next and immediatly following after the date hereof, and so from hence foorth yeerely during the continuance of this our graunt, assemble themselues in some conuenient place, and that they or the greater parte of them being so assembled, shall and may elect, ordaine, nominate, and appoint twelue discreete and honest persons of the sayde companie to be assistants to the sayde Gouernour, and to continue in the sayde office of assistants, vntill they shall die or bee remoued by the sayde Gouernour and companie or the greater part of them.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

; chancellor elected by an absolute majority of the Federal Assembly for a four-year term; Bundestag vote for Chancellor last held 22 November 2005 (next will follow the national elections to be held by autumn 2009) election results: Horst KOEHLER elected president; received 604 votes of the Federal Convention against 589 for Gesine SCHWAN; Angela MERKEL elected chancellor; vote by Federal Assembly 397 to 202 with 12 abstentions Ghana chief of state: President John Agyekum KUFUOR (since 7 January 2001); Vice President Alhaji Aliu MAHAMA (since 7 January 2001); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of government:
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency