A third time he was flogging me cruelly, when a lady stepped quickly up to him, and said in a sweet, earnest voice: “Oh! pray do not whip your good horse any more; I am sure he is doing all he can, and the road is very steep; I am sure he is doing his best.”
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

e gods, he is not that Cynic's enemy, since he cannot injure him; rather he inflicts on himself the most terrible punishment of all, namely ignorance of one who is nobler than himself; and so he is deserted and bereft of the other's protection.) Ἀλλ᾽ εἰ μὲν νῦν μοι προύκειτο περὶ Κυνισμοῦ γράφειν, [B] εἶπον ἂν ὑπὲρ τούτων ἔτι τὰ παριστάμενά μοι τῶν εἰρημένων ἴσως οὐκ ἐλάττω· νῦν
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

In serving at table, a slave had inadvertently dropped a dish of scalding broth on his master: the heedless wretch fell prostrate, to deprecate his punishment, and repeated a verse of the Koran: "Paradise is for those who command their anger: "—"I am not angry: "—"and for those who pardon offences: "—"I pardon your offence: "—"and for those who return good for evil: "—"I give you your liberty and four hundred pieces of silver."
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This is a corollary of the former, of the Reason or rate of a Parallelogramme with a Triangulate; and it needeth no Page 146 [146] farther demonstration; but a ready and steddy hand in describing and working of it.
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus

Then the new hand stands there and bows and says what he has to say, and the Grand Duke graciously gives him his hand, and so he is dismissed and walks backwards, and thinks the folding-doors are going to open behind him, as he has been definitely promised.
— from Royal Highness by Thomas Mann

And then, the sylvan influence and flash of the clear eyes removed, Sampei would wake and shake himself in distress, and know that the ground was dangerous.
— from The Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield

She cannot afford the expense of a Seattle hospital, I daresay, and I do not desire to oppress her."
— from Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

"Just as you think and say, have I determined, and I have informed these insolent beys that I will not grant them a respite of five months, nor of five weeks; no, not of five days.
— from Mohammed Ali and His House by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The tree had its own way of comforting him; the branches swept the ground and shut him in dark and close.
— from The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Mary Hunter Austin