He then quits his palace at Cambaluc, and proceeds to that city which he has built, as I told you before, and which is called Chandu, where he has that grand park and palace of cane, and where he keeps his gerfalcons in mew.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Some thought a change, or at least reviewal and new approval, might be admissible in thirty years; some even went lower, down to twenty, nay to fifteen.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“Yes; but Don Carlos?” “Well, Don Carlos will drink Bordeaux, and in ten years we will marry his son to the little queen.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

'But I do thank you, Mr Rokesmith,' said Mrs Boffin, 'and I thank you most kindly.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

I despaired at first, said the corporal, of being able to bring back any intelligence to your honour, about the lieutenant and his son; for when I asked where his servant was, from whom I made myself sure of knowing every thing which was proper to be asked,—That's a right distinction, Trim, said my uncle Toby—I was answered, an' please your honour, that he had no servant with him;—that he had come to the inn with hired horses, which, upon finding himself unable to proceed (to join, I suppose, the regiment), he had dismissed the morning after he came.—If I get better, my dear, said he, as he gave his purse to his son to pay the man,—we can hire horses from hence.—But alas!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

You must not think that I exaggerate when I speak in this way of the music here; refer to whom you will, except to a Frenchman born, and (if trustworthy) you will hear the same.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I know nothing for certain; only I have seen things which induce me to believe, as I told you, that the future captain will find some annoyance in the vicinity of the Vieilles Infirmeries.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He ran and bounded like a buck, and kept us well in the rear for some time; but at last he got caught in an impenetrable thicket of cane; then he turned to bay, and I tell you he fought the dogs right gallantly.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Published by authority in the year one thousand and.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In a minute, when I’ve done with you, you’ll go to bed as I told you to.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

I doubt not but to give you that light therein, that you shall confess yourselves blinded, and be willing to blow from you the foul mist that has been an impediment to your sight; you shall be awakened from your drowsy sleep, and rouse yourselves to follow this best business that ever was presented to England, or king thereof; nay, I will be bold to say, to any state in the world.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

but as a common man; witness the night, your garments, your lowliness; and what your Highness suffer'd under that shape I beseech you take it for your own fault, and not mine; for had you been as I took you for, I made no offence; therefore, I beseech your Highness pardon me.
— from King Henry V by William Shakespeare

And the little one had scarcely been alone in the yard a minute, before he realised that now the right moment was come to go down to Takern and talk with Jarro.
— from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf

This was the only real interest he took in the whole business, and if the young prince had a fancy to the property he had better hasten his decision or he would come too late.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

" Sigurd: "Methinks it is a more useful and suitable accomplishment for a chief to be expert at his bow; and I think you could scarcely draw my bow, even if you took your foot to help.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

It is a solitude—its master an outcast, and it has been the repeated scene of all sorts of scandals, and of one great crime; and Lady Knollys thinks your having been domesticated there will be an injury to you all the days of your life.'
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Horace, you was blamed; and I think you was worthy of censure.
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham

None of the three had been there before, and instinctively the younger ones left Rona to lead the way.
— from For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil

The poor fellow has had a hard time since I got him, for rations in the valley are poor and scant, but I've done with less so he could have a bite, and I tell you he has kept me warm a many a night.
— from Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Fannie A. Beers