"Does the fact that you've become a captain keep you from seeing anything in your path, Mr. Mason?" asked the man in a deep bass, but wholly good-natured voice.
— from The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

You think, if you suspected your patient was being poisoned, say, by a copper kettle, you would instantly, as you ought, cut off all possible connection between him and the suspected source of injury, without regard to the fact that a curious mine of observation is thereby lost.
— from Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale

If you stand by me I may be a cattle king yet.
— from The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland

… “Admit, that our king be a Christien king, yit but amen dement, he is a reprobat king.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

"An' the woods are full of caddish barons and caitiff knaves, you know, aren't they, Uncle Dick?"
— from The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

In one of the epic convulsions of Paris a woman of the people, standing on a barricade, raised her petticoat, showed the soldiery her naked belly, and cried, "Kill your mothers!"
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo