This morning Mr. Blackburne came to me to let me know that he had got a lodging very commodious for his kinsman, and so he is ready at my pleasure to go when I would bid him, and so I told him that I would in a day or two send to speak with him and
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But there Marcius with a few followers checked their onset, slew the foremost, and with a loud voice called on the Romans to rally.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

[ In his early youth (Confess. i. 14) St. Augustin disliked and neglected the study of Greek; and he frankly owns that he read the Platonists in a Latin version, (Confes.
— 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

"Chocolat a la Vanille," cried the impenetrable man, cheerfully rattling the sweetmeats in the box, and bowing all round.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In olden days, on his approach to a village, a runner would enter first, [ 468 ] and in a loud voice cry out “ O Guya’u ,” whereupon all the people would stand in readiness, and at the chief’s approach the commoners would throw themselves on the ground, the headman would squat down, and men of rank would bend their heads.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

An attractive girl came and opened the door to us assuredly the young lady in question, and I said to Rivet in a low voice: 'Confound it!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

One or two smaller bouquets adorned the mantel, and late violets clustered about the open windows.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Silence was enforced, and Lucretius was just on the point of voting when a centurion in command of a detachment of the guard of the day marched by, and in a loud voice called to the standard-bearer: "Pitch the standard here: here it is best for us to stay."
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Her own happiness, and her own spirits, were at least very certain; and she joined Mrs. Jennings most heartily in her expectation of their being all comfortably together in Delaford Parsonage before Michaelmas.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

While this grateful creature kissed the hand of her kind benefactress, Fathom uttered a groan, began to stir in the bed, and with a languid voice called upon Elenor, who, instantly withdrawing the curtain, presented the whole company to his view.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Mr. Ridley, who has under his management certain offices for the analysation of alcoholic liquors, states that there are several recipes , such as [Pg 362] ‘To a barrel of porter [add] 12 gallons of liquor, 4 lbs. of foots, 1 lb. of salt; and sometimes to bring a head up [and lay it down?], a little vitriol , cocculus indicus , also a variety of things very minute’ (4700).
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French

His chief work was in the classics, publishing Anecdota Græca and Anecdota Latina , valuable collections of hitherto unedited fragments.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842 by Pierre-Jean de Smet

Do you, sir,” he added to the priest, “mount behind Guy Fawkes, and let Viviana come next after me.
— from Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

On the road to Polibino, and eight versts from Bagrovo, a number of Mordvinians settled in a large village called Noikino, and built a mill on the streamlet of Bokla.
— from A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov

"Signor mio," says he, "when we are in privacy," folding his hands over his breast and looking very contrite, "I am bound to confess to you that the man whom I have hitherto called 'cousin,' is not such, nor indeed any relation or connexion of mine!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

This is a low velocity compared with ordinary standards.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

"You may stay in here, if you really wish," said Polly in a low voice, Charlotte Chatterton looking on with all her eyes, "and I will excuse you."
— from Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

I am Lady Violet Calcott."
— from The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell