"You know of course that Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Lady Anne Darcy were sisters; consequently that she is aunt to the present Mr. Darcy."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

7 and life are demanded for its defense and preservation....
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

She shall go in the church no more, pulling and littering and destroying."
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Wilt thou for the sake of a lewd and disorderly appetite, forsake thine honour and me, who love thee more than my life?
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

A blow was imprudently given; a sword was hastily drawn; and the first blood that was spilt in this accidental quarrel, became the signal of a long and destructive war.
— 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

She had come to see, also, that the newspaper work should be a leading and distinctive feature of the National Association to a far greater extent than hitherto had been attempted, and which, until of late years, had not been possible.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Up, and all day at the office, but a little at dinner, and there late till past 12.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Here I fell in with these, and to Bodham’s with them, and there we sat and laughed and drank in his arbour, Wren making much and kissing all the day of Temple’s wife.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“You know of course that Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Lady Anne Darcy were sisters; consequently that she is aunt to the present Mr. Darcy.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

" King Harald Gille's friends, however, said this was only a lie, and deceit of the Danes.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Fortunately, a saddle-train which had passed down to Genoa during the previous day returned a little after daylight.
— from Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

As long as daylight lasted the British infantry continued to be ferried over to the city, but they were not all across when night fell.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

In spite of the hot fire with which we were met from the mole head, we succeeded in effecting a landing, and drove the enemy before us.
— from Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Oh, I shall wait a little and look after Dale."
— from A Change of Air by Anthony Hope

When I asked her to marry me she refused, at length and descriptively.
— from The Spy in the Elevator by Donald E. Westlake

At last the police magistrate, Mr. Foster, refused to remand them any longer, and discharged the whole of them.
— from The Last of the Bushrangers: An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang by Francis Augustus Hare

A long and discursive dialogue now followed, in which Mabel endeavored to obtain clearer notions of her actual situation, under a faint hope that she might possibly be enabled to turn some of the facts she thus learned to advantage.
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

Eventually he went to live in a boarding house, a solution which he had always loathed and dreaded.
— from Married by August Strindberg