“They might be useful to me as relics of my adventure,” said he, “but beyond that I can hardly see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are going to be to me.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The result was, as we have seen, in the end a partnership rather than a relation of master and servant; and I say ‘in the end’ because, contrary to popular belief, the Chinese have not been tolerant of foreign religious faiths, and at various times have persecuted Buddhism as relentlessly as they have other rivals to orthodox Confucianism.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

I got fidgety again, and resolved on making a survey of the grounds before the rain came.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

'Yes,' replied the man, 'you have seen her; she is a relation of mine, and seldom goes out.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Those who have studied the action of our Cavalry in that campaign thoroughly—as I myself had full opportunity of doing—will agree that we seldom had to have recourse to the carbine except on the offensive, as I have pointed out above, and only in the rarest cases did we need them for defensive purposes; and though in future against overwhelming forces this necessity may arise more frequently, still, as in 1870, this tendency towards a resolute offensive must always stand in the foreground.
— from Cavalry in Future Wars by Friedrich von Bernhardi

Hundreds of yards of mills stretched away on either side; mills with windows wide open, and within them Honora heard the clicking and roaring of machinery, and saw the men and women at their daily tasks.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

But ruins are still to be seen there, splendid and historic ruins—the façade of the château d’Anet, built for Diane de Poitiers, and remains of many another superb hôtel of bygone ages.
— from Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

Firms and individuals shipped thousands of barrels daily, employing a regiment of men and stacks of cash.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

'I was just saying to the staff officer that there were no Boers within twenty miles,' says one who was present, 'when we heard a roar of musketry and saw a lot of men galloping down on us.'
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

In his steady envisagement of the horror that envelops the stupendous universe of science, in his power to evoke and revive old myths and superstitions, and by their glamour to cast a ghostly light of vanished suns over the darkness of the abyss, he was the most Lucretian of modern writers.
— from The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories by Lafcadio Hearn

And if the answer of some be "we met and loved and married, and now we are miserable," shall we draw ourselves up and tell them that the fault is theirs, that marriages are (or should be) made in heaven, and that they ought to have discovered before they plighted their troth that John would be a rascal or Mary a slattern?
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

I myself have put a restraint on my ardour, so that I might not violate your express commands; but… MASC.
— from The Love-Tiff by Molière