I begin to understand it all now," she said, her tamed and disciplined anger only expressing itself in the elaborate mockery of her tone and manner.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Ang bungbung ray amang nga saksi sa ílang gibúhat, The walls were the mute witnesses to their deeds.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And now swetnesse semeth more sweet, That bitternesse assayed was biforn;
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

I obey the first clause of the injunction by trying once more, but am not so successful with the second, for I am very stupid.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Those are conclusive, which infer their conclusion specially, and not syllogistically; such for instance, as this, “The proposition it is both day and night is false.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Or, alas, not so safe?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“And now, sire,” said the young captain, “do you not recognize me?”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

“Indeed you are not,” she said.
— from Peter by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Curled up in the corner nearest the roof, where Mr. Stubbs had been in the habit of sitting, Toby saw, as Ben had said, a monkey that looked remarkably like Mr. Stubbs, save that he was younger and not so sedate.
— from Mr. Stubbs's Brother A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler' by James Otis

And now, she sat there, like a figure carved in ebony; and only for the ghastly pallor of her face in the indistinct glimpses of it they could catch through the vail, could they tell that she even heard.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

Since names and their signification are entirely arbitrary, such propositions are not, strictly speaking, susceptible of truth or falsity, but only of conformity or disconformity to usage or convention; and all the proof they are capable of, is proof of usage; proof that the words have been employed by others in the acceptation in which the speaker or writer desires to use them.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

This mode of tenure, before the Conquest, was quite common in parts of England, especially Wales and Northumberland, still surviving especially in the county of Kent.
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

" "I am not so sure of that," said Hazel faintly, but with a cool fortitude all his own.
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault

She'll go to Bessie the minute she gets back and say something disagreeable to her, or she'll treat her in an angry disagreeable manner, and just as like as not say something,—something purposely impertinent to irritate Bessie,—for
— from Hope Benham: A Story for Girls by Nora Perry