Your impatient loquacious man has never any notion of keeping his pipe alight by gentle measured puffs; he is always letting it go nearly out, and then punishing it for that negligence.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

“Lads,” he said, shaking a little, “I gave no such order.”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

'Lads,' he said, shaking a little, 'I gave no such order.'
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

However, the association was content; or at least it gave no sign to the contrary.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Cinerea is light colored and lives in great numbers about houses and barns in northern New England.
— from The Common Spiders of the United States by J. H. (James Henry) Emerton

[1004] “I see,” Luther himself wrote to Erfurt, “that monks are leaving in great numbers for no other reason than for their belly’s sake and for the freedom of the flesh.”
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Here is your place beside me: and you can tell me what you have been doing all this time, for there were so many interruptions at lunch I got no good of you," the young lady said.
— from The Wizard's Son, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The nation itself had begun the war, and left its Government no choice but to follow.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

The Church gives naught; at least, it gives nothing that is of this world.
— from Down the Orinoco in a Canoe by Santiago Pérez Triana

“I am afraid we likewise agree that, under all circumstances, our two young people are very unfortunately attached, and that we must be hard-hearted, and let it go no further.”
— from The Three Brides by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

"The Gulf of Guayaquil is so called from a river of this name which is famous for its shifting sand-banks, on which as the water recedes alligators are left in great numbers.
— from The World of Waters Or, A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea by Osborne, David, Mrs. (Fanny)