Will—will he give me a blessing?' 'O holy man!
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

[ The advocate who pleaded against Jane could add nothing to the logical force and brevity of his master's epistle.
— 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

He would, however, let Timothy have a bit of his mind, and see if he would go on dropping hints!
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

The story goes that a boat of Her Majesty’s ship Wolverine found him kneeling on the kelp, naked as the day he was born, and chanting some psalm-tune or other; light snow was falling at the time.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life....
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

An Episcopal Mule, of its family proud, Would not keep his ancestry under a cloud, But chattered, and bragged of his mother the mare: Of her having done this, and her having been there; And vowed that so famous a creature ignored, Was a shame and disgrace to historian's record.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

And the old Professor came right up to him and passed him like a total stranger, without even a blink of his mournful eyelids.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Hannibal therefore bent his whole energies to the restoration of the spirits and bodies of his men, and of their horses also.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

In 1840 Wheatstone also brought out his magneto-electrical machine for generating continuous currents, and his chronoscope, for measuring minute intervals of time, which was used in determining the speed of a bullet or the passage of a star.
— from Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro

This interdependence of individuals being once appreciated, it follows that a book on hygiene must deal, not only with the question of individual living, but also with those broader questions having to do with the cause and spread of disease, with the transmission of bacteria from one community to another, and with those natural influences which, more or less under the control of man, may affect a large area if their natural destructive tendencies are allowed to develop.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

Once again the Princess was fain to recognise the fact that it was her son who stood before her with that ominous blue mark on his brow, with the look and bearing 'of his mother herself.'
— from Under a Charm: A Novel. Vol. III by E. Werner

But as they were failures, they were not allowed to breathe long and live, although, the intrinsically paramount power of psychic over physical nature being yet very weak, and hardly established, the “ Egg-born ” Sons had taken several of their females unto themselves as mates, and bred other human monsters.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

The arrangement beforehand of his movements was also a matter of great importance with Louis XV.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Mike was popular with all because of his many fine 114 qualities, aside from the marvelous treats he occasionally gave in singing.
— from The Boy Patrol Around the Council Fire by Edward Sylvester Ellis

A good night's rest and a bottle of his mixture were all that was required.
— from Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

Supported by such comforting declarations—such kind promises of a faithful God, and the allured belief of his mercy and truth, he resigns them to his care and leaves them with him, not doubting, but he will preserve them, or dispose of them, as shall be most for his own glory, and their good.
— from Sermons on Various Important Subjects Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume by Andrew Lee

On the 19th November she wished to send a letter to Elizabeth respecting her will and arrangements for her funeral, and on Paulet being asked to forward it he replied that “he must first read it before it was sealed, as she (Queen Mary) might put something within of which he wished to be assured because of his mistress.”
— from The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician by Samuel Cowan