Another still more striking proof may be adduced.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

‘Ah,’ said Mr. Smangle, ‘paper has been my ruin.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

CLEINIAS: What do you mean? ATHENIAN: Perhaps what I am saying may seem paradoxical, and at variance with the usual language of age.
— from Laws by Plato

and with a sudden move she pulled up the gauzy wrapping on her rounded arm, and pointed to a little scar that showed red against its milky beauty.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Adam Smith, Moral Sentiments , Part iv.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

“And send my scythe, please, to Tit, for him to set it, and bring it round tomorrow.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Mr. Barwis has lately been with Mr. and Mrs. Cobbett at Botley; they have kindly promised to be sponsors to a son Mrs. Swann presented me with a fortnight ago, whom I shall have named William.”
— from William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 2 by Edward Smith

There was no telegraph to Coniston in these days, and so Mr. Sam Price, with his horse in a lather, might have been seen driving with unseemly haste toward Brampton, where in due time he arrived.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Only a few minutes, however, had elapsed before another still more savory puff induced me to take several long inhalations.
— from The Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne