Don Quixote shall last you a month for breakfast reading.–Spectator.
Take them as they come, you shall find in the common people a surly indifference.–Emerson.
The worst of making a mannerism of this shall is that, after the first two or three times, the reader is certain to see it coming; for its function is nearly always the same–to bring in illustrations of a point already laid down.
Some of us, like Mr. Andrew Lang for instance, cannot away with a person who does not care for Scott or Dickens.–Spectator.
One needs not praise their courage.–Emerson.
What tum things are likely to take if this version be persisted in is a matter for speculation.–Times.
If Mr. Hobhouse's analysis of the vices of popular government be correct, much more would seem to be needed.–Times.
Mr. Bowen has been, not recalled, but ordered to Washington, and will be expected to produce proof, if any he have, of his charges against Mr. Loomis.–Times.
It were futile to attempt to deprive it of its real meaning.–Times.
It were idle to deny that the revolutionary movement in Russia is nowhere followed with keener interest than in this country.–Times.
It were idle to deny that coming immediately after the Tangier demonstration it assumes special and unmistakable significance.–Times.
He is putting poetic 'frills', if the phrase be not too mean, on what is better stated in the prose summary of the argument.–Times.
Regarded as a counter-irritant to slang, archaism is a failure. Frills is ten times more noticeable for the prim and pompous be.
Under then the land is being rapidly frivolled away, and, unless immediate action be taken, the country will be so tied that...–Times.
That will depend a good deal on whether he be shocked by the cynicism of the most veracious of all possible representations...–H. James.
We may not quote the lengthy passage here: it is probably familiar to many readers.–Times.
'We must not'. Similarly, the modern prose English for if I be, it were, is if I am, it would be.
'I have no particular business at L.,' said he; 'I was merely going thither to pass a day or two.'–Borrow.
I am afraid you will hardly be able to ride your horse thither in time to dispose of him.–Borrow.
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