" "Madam," said Joseph, "I do assure your ladyship I don't know whether any maid in the house is man or woman."
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

"A man in the harem!
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Again, as a man is to himself so is he to his friend; now with respect to himself the perception of his own existence is choiceworthy, therefore is it also in respect of his friend.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Else moonstruck with music and madness I track him in vain!
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though taking each other’s measure.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

A thousand years went by, and still He laboured on the northern hill With pains so terrible and drear That all the Gods were chilled with fear, And Gods and saints, for swift advice, Met in the halls of Paradise.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

There was a man, if that he was a man, Not that his manhood could be call'd in question, For had he not been Hercules, his span Had been as short in youth as indigestion Made his last illness, when, all worn and wan, He died beneath a tree, as much unblest on The soil of the green province he had wasted, As e'er was locust on the land it blasted.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Either may be in the right; and each of those who grant their assistance may imagine that he is giving his support to the better cause.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Thirdly, Sometimes the spirits are moved inordinately through heat, thence follows immoderate watchings, if not deprivation of the senses, this also must be remedied with cold medicines, for cold stops the pores of the skin, makes the humours thick, represses sweat, and keeps up the spirits from fainting.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

In their wars against the Roman church, the emperor and his son Mainfroy were strengthened and disgraced by the service of the enemies of Christ; and this national colony maintained their religion and manners in the heart of Italy, till they were extirpated, at the end of the thirteenth century, by the zeal and revenge of the house of Anjou.
— 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

What a lot of noise the girls are making in the hall!”
— from Madge Morton's Victory by Amy D. V. Chalmers

The Egyptian sank back, gazing vacantly on the averted face of the merchant's daughter, and muttering inly to himself: this conference, with which he had hitherto only trifled, amusing himself with the credulity and vanity of his visitor—might it not minister to his revenge?'
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I wish to quote the following question and answer: “Q: ‘About 1933, we have been informed, certain industrialists attended a meeting in the home of Göring before the election in March.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

Fuller tells us that “the English monks were bookish of themselves, and much inclined to hoard up monuments of learning.”
— from The Last Abbot of Glastonbury: A Tale of the Dissolution of the Monasteries by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

Similar stories are common among the Red Indians, and Mr. Im Thurn has found them in Guiana.
— from Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang

I understand from her that he is a man in the humbler walks of life, and therefore I think that he might be willing to close with us for a liberal advance upon the price paid the smuggler."
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

“Never was a man in trouble had such a sweet helper.
— from Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

He detested young men with their high spirits and loud laughs and automatic digestions, and he did not for a moment intend to have such a one about the house.
— from Thorley Weir by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

"Well; if you ask me, I think he has gone there to see your cousin, Grace Crawley."
— from The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope