The highest price recorded is 87 ducats paid for a Russian girl sold in 1429.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It is not, as some insist, that the participle itself has any imperatival force; nor, as maintained by others, that the construction should be explained by the hypothesis of a preceding parenthesis or of a verb substantive understood or by any other expedient to obtain a regular grammatical structure (see Winer, § xlv.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

With an appealing, almost a reproachful, glance, she rose from the window; and hurrying across the room as if without knowing where, put her hands before her face, and burst into such tears as smote me to the heart.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“A RATTLING good spread” means an excellent repast, while a true friend is said to be a “ RATTLING good fellow.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

One, who was a retired Government servant, had told him that whenever he saw the Chota Lord Sahib he always asked for the latest news about the Babus of Nayanjore, and the Chota Lard had been heard to say that in all Bengal the only really respectable families were those of the Maharaja of Burdwan and the Babus of Nayanjore.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Here, under her few square yards of thatch, she watched winds, and snows, and rains, gorgeous sunsets, and successive moons at their full.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

On a heap of those soft shavings a rough, grey shepherd dog had made himself a pleasant bed, and was lying with his nose between his fore-paws, occasionally wrinkling his brows to cast a glance at the tallest of the five workmen, who was carving a shield in the centre of a wooden mantelpiece.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

She saw upon the slope quantities of cows, goats, and sheep, feeding just as on the Tyrolese Alps; but beyond was a dark row of pines, and up above, in the sky as it were, rose all round great sharp points—like clouds for their whiteness, but not in their straight jagged outlines; and here and there the deep grey clefts between seemed to spread into white rivers, or over the ruddy purple of the half-distance came sharp white lines darting downwards.
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

But Ruby Gillis says she saw him writing something on her slate and when Prissy read it she blushed as red as a beet and giggled; and Ruby Gillis says she doesn’t believe it had anything to do with the lesson.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

However, it is a rather grim subject to joke about, because, if I believe the doctor who comes around every day and thumps me, and listens to my chest with as much pleasure as if I was music all through,—I say, if I believed him, I should suppose I was going to die.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

“But there are real ghosts sometimes, surely?” said Mr. Batchel.
— from The Stoneground Ghost Tales Compiled from the recollections of the reverend Roland Batchel, the vicar of the parish. by E. G. (Edmund Gill) Swain

per week, he gives one the impression of a real good sort; a parson who is also a scholar.
— from Mrs. Gaskell by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The result was the following 264 Yamagata-Lobanoff Protocol, signed on June 9, 1896:— “ Article I. The Japanese and Russian Governments should, with the object of remedying the financial embarrassments of Korea, counsel the Korean Government to suppress all unnecessary expenses and to establish an equilibrium between expenditure and revenue.
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

"I thought--but never mind, sir," he began, "I was wrong, It is curious how very much alike gentlemen, that are real gentlemen, speak.
— from The King's Stratagem, and Other Stories by Stanley John Weyman

In the following year, when the Clubs vied with each other in giving the town the most expensive masquerades and ridottos, Gibbon speaks of one given by the members of Boodle's, that cost 2000 guineas.
— from Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2) With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries by John Timbs

Yázykoff's poetry is weaker and paler in coloring than Délvig's or Baratýnsky's, yet richer than all of theirs in really incomparable outward form of the verse, and in poetical expression of thought; in fact, he was "the poet of expression," and rendered great service by his boldness and originality of language, in that it taught men to write not as all others wrote, but as it lay in their individual power to write; in other words, he inculcated individuality in literature.
— from A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood