“Yes,” I said with assurance; “I could eat some mutton.”
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Herds of these different mammals were playing about in the tranquil waters, and I could easily see that this Antarctic polar basin now served as a refuge for those cetaceans too relentlessly pursued by hunters.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

They had driven out early, and, as it chanced, encountered several friends of Hurstwood, all Elks, and two of whom had attended the performance the evening before.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Another effect I noticed, which was the passage of thick clouds which formed and vanished rapidly; but on reflection I understood that these seeming clouds were due to the varying thickness of the reeds at the bottom, and I could even see the fleecy foam which their broken tops multiplied on the water, and the shadows of large birds passing above our heads, whose rapid flight I could discern on the surface of the sea.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Ayaw mu pagsurangsurang kay kumakaug táwu ning ákung ginháwa, Don’t provoke me because I’m so angry I could eat s.o. right now.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He presented his program, was asked whether his conscience didn't revolt at its callousness, explained succinctly that a deal was a deal and anybody who wasn't smart enough to protect himself didn't deserve protection—"Caveat emptor," he threw in for scholarship, and had to translate it to "Let the buyer beware.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

Her eyes were fixed upon the lovely object thus exposed to her gaze, and I could easily see from the flushing of her face and the sparkling of her eyes what a powerful impression I had made upon her.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

I am innocent, and yet your clever, suspicious eyes have been punishing me for an imaginary crime ever since my marriage.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is my opinion that Gaul would find a pledge of security for the future if it knew that after Victorin the power would remain with the son of him whom the army acclaimed its chief, especially seeing that the child would have for his instructress Victoria, the Mother of the Camps."
— from The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps by Eugène Sue

Besides it was evident that very deadly feelings existed between Jenna and the murderer of his sister, for he (Jenna) came and requested me to call this native my friend, at the same time to give him plenty of flour and rice, "And," added he, "by-and-bye, ask him to sleep at your fire; then, in the night, whilst he is asleep, I can easily spear him; and I will off, and walk to Perth."
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George, Sir

" "No, for it's all I can ever say.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The sun was now high, and I could easily see that I was following out the direction Halkett gave me, and which I continued to repeat over and over to myself as I went along.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

To-day the new feudalism has more than half entangled society in its meshes, and its complete establishment stares us in the face.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

It is all I can expect, since you have told me that I was asking the impossible.
— from The White Sister by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

“ Robert Killigrew , of Arwenack, in Cornwall, Esq.; son of Thomas and Charlotte; Page of Honour to Charles II.; Brigadier-General of Her Majesty’s Forces; killed in Spain, in the battle of Almanza, April 14, 1707, ætatis suæ forty-seven.
— from Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and Curiosities by Anonymous

It is a pernicious and impious custom, either seriously or seemingly to argue against the gods.”
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop