When Bob ventured a remark or comment, he answered by a grunt or a monosyllable.
— from The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

For instance, it so happens that there is at this moment a man named Dunphy actually residing on Constitution Hill, and engaged in the very same line of life which I have assigned to one of my principal characters of that name in the novel, that of a huckster; yet of this circumstance I knew nothing.
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

His merits as a recorder of contemporary history are briefly sketched by a writer of that period, who thus describes his despatches to Rodolph: ‘ C’est un portrait au naturel des affaires de France sous le régne de Henri III.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

They were tied up in a ragged old cotton handkerchief, and they had been carried in the breast-pocket of yonder wayfarer who lay stark and stiff, with his dead face staring up at the bright blue sky of early morning.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

“It is all right, of course,” he answered.
— from The Spell by William Dana Orcutt

It is only in material compounds that the motus virtutis can be admitted, [389] for the reason that the active powers and qualities in them are a result of composition; hence a change in the mode of the composition brings about a change in the resultant.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Colonel Gray, at request of Colonel Howard, assumed command at the transfer depot, and held possession until about ten P.M. , when General Brown came and told Colonel Gray that the place was untenable, and could not be held; that he had information which made it necessary for them to get out, and ordered the command to go to the Union depot.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

After passing a corner crucifix it shakes itself free of the houses and rises slowly up a ridge of chalk hill about three hundred feet high.
— from The Old Front Line by John Masefield

"Business is all right, of course," he admitted.
— from The Lever: A Novel by William Dana Orcutt

“Well, yes, there are rumours of course,” he answered.
— from In White Raiment by William Le Queux