After ceremonies past, and I had inquired after my wife and children, and his answers had informed me of their healths, "Well," says Nasgig, "my friend, am I to live or die?"—"Explain yourself," says I.—"Nay, I only mean," says he, "have you discovered me to the king?"—"Pardon me," says I, "dear Nasgig, I must own the truth, I have.
— from The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Complete (Volumes 1 and 2) by Robert Paltock

And in the second place, it contains almost a history in miniature of the highest speculations of philosophy, both in earlier and in later times, and points out, with a clearness and precision the more valuable because uninfluenced by recent controversies, the exact field on which the philosophies of the Conditioned and the Unconditioned come into collision, and the nature of the problem which they both approach from opposite sides.
— from The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel

We know that some of the characters are historical in most of the heroic stories.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

Before he finished making ducks and drakes of the property she succeeded in depriving him judicially of its control, and having it made over to her.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 1 by Armando Palacio Valdés

"To command every body that was not dressed as finely as himself."— Id. "Many of them have scarcely outlived their authors.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown