At this point General Epanchin, noticing how interested Muishkin had become in the conversation, said to him, in a low tone: “That gentleman—Ivan Petrovitch—is a relation of your late friend, Mr. Pavlicheff.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Put a ring on your little finger out of compliment to the earth-spirit ( akan mĕmbujok jĕmbalang itu ), repeat the charm 61 and erect the post.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

They are recorded on your ledger, or perhaps have been sold to human flesh-mongers, with a view to filling our own ever-hungry purse.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The Proportion of the Sines of Incidence and Refraction of yellow Light.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Dear Bahá’í Brother: Your Assembly’s communications with their enclosures and material sent under separate cover have all been safely received by the beloved Guardian; and he has instructed me to answer you on his behalf, and to acknowledge receipt of your letters dated: August 14, September 6, October 14 and 29, and December 3, 1956, and February 17 and March 24, May 9, June 12 and 19, 1957.
— from Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand by Effendi Shoghi

Hence, when we find a few years later (A.D. 570) that there was one great elephant, and some say thirteen elephants,[3] employed in the army which Abraha, the Abyssinian Ruler of Yemen led against Mecca, an expedition famous in Arabian history as the War of the Elephant, we are disposed to believe that these must have been elephants imported from India.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

Dear Sterling , This is just a hasty note to acknowledge receipt of your letter and the poems.
— from The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

At length, in the last court on a white marble terrace guarded by bronze roes, the Ancestors' Palace lifts its tarnished gold façade, surmounted by a roof of yellow lacquer.
— from The Last Days of Pekin by Pierre Loti

He was brought to the Bar of the House of Lords and ordered to make instant submission upon his knees at the bar of that house, before their lordships, in the words following.— “I do humbly beg your Lordships’ pardon, and express very hearty sorrow for not executing your Lordships’ order, and for any unadvised words uttered by me, which might have any reflection on your Lordships’ judgement and order concerning the matter in difference between the towns of Lowestoft and Yarmouth.”
— from Lowestoft in olden times by Francis Davy Longe

I said such things are more easily found than anything good; you run a risk of your life, and I recommend you to take care.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 03 by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

An important and secret mission will be the accredited reason of your leaving Reisenburg.
— from Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The door of the barn, as I saw it from a distance, was open and made a rectangle of yellow light against the black woods beyond it.
— from The Great Quest A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea by Charles Boardman Hawes

Then, when the carriage has stopped to avoid running over you, lean forward and fire both pistols at him.
— from For Love of a Bedouin Maid by Voleur