I hold a magnet now in our new friend Will draw you to my house.
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan

I tell you, as sure as my name is Ole Nordistuen of the Heidegards, the priest shall sooner publish the bans of the hulder-folks up in the Nordal forest than give out such names from the pulpit as Marit's and yours, you Christmas clown!
— from A Happy Boy by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

"I have not an appointment, and my name is of no consequence.
— from Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh

"Such a kind, handsome man as Mr. Noble is ought not to be denied by his wife.
— from Countess Vera; or, The Oath of Vengeance by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

"But the Goths chose Witichis for their king, a man, not indeed of noble birth, but of great fame as a warrior.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 2 by Felix Dahn

Perhaps they are as silently giving you and me numbers, instead of names, in Chinese.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

Many of the above insects have probably their capital station, or that where the species are most numerous, in or near the tropics; but the metropolis of the Brachyptera , at least as far as we can judge from our present catalogues, is within the temperate zone, particularly in Britain
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Having satisfactorily answered many other questions, Sir William, generously relieved him with a guinea, and Lord Bolingbroke followed his example; the other gentlemen and clergy contributed according to their different ranks, which they were the more inclined to do, as the captains found he could give a very exact account of all the settlements, harbours, and most noted inhabitants of Newfoundland.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars Containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown

But while I am mentioning Naples, I ought not to omit that effect of dancing, which is attributed to it, upon those who are bitten with the Tarantula .
— from A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini

But water will only expand up to a certain point, while its incompressibility, being a force in a manner negative, is, of necessity, infinite.”
— from The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac