“She has been back at the hiding-place,” I heard the Sergeant say to himself.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

On my Christian conscience, this one christening will beget a thousand: here will be father, godfather, and all together.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It was pretty generally believed that he had been chiefly instrumental in bringing one of the largest slaveholders—Mr. Samuel Harrison—in that neighborhood, to emancipate all his slaves, and, indeed, the general impression was, that Mr. Cookman had labored faithfully with slaveholders, whenever he met them, to induce them to emancipate their bondmen, and that he did this as a religious duty.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

I dined with Madame d’Urfe, and we decided to send back Aranda to his boarding-school that we might be more free to pursue our cabalistic operations; and afterwards I went to the opera, where my brother had made an appointment with me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

When it gained expression in Christ welcoming Greeks, and seeing in [ 443 ] stones possible ‘children of Abraham;’ in Paul acknowledging debt to barbarians and taking his texts from Greek altars or poets; the evolution of the ideal element in Hebrew religion had gained much.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk to the southward; and am now brought hither by this Indian to be redeemed out of my captivity.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But I was saying If I should be able to have your company.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and guards who crowned the barricade.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Thus his whole year is distributed in the following manner: six months at his chief palace in the royal city of Cambaluc, to wit, September, October, November, December, January, February ; Then on the great hunting expedition towards the sea, March, April, May ; Then back to his palace at Cambaluc for three days ; Then off to the city of Chandu which he has built, and where the Cane Palace is, where he stays June, July, August ; Then back again to his capital city of Cambaluc.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

We also discussed a scheme for the selection, by disagreeing nations, of "seconding powers," who, before the beginning of hostilities, or even after, shall attempt to settle difficulties between powers, or, if unsuccessful, to stop them as soon after war begins as the honor of the nations concerned may allow.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

This spontaneous extinction must be prevented, because, as the hydrogen gas is pressed upon in its reservoir, by an inch and a half of water, whilst the oxygen gas suffers a pressure only of three lines, a mixture of the two would take place in the balloon, which would at last be forced by the superior pressure into the reservoir of oxygen gas.
— from Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

He had been cheated of it by a remorseless destiny; he had been a baby, and then he had been a man.
— from The Snowshoe Trail by Edison Marshall

And now Gertie straightened herself, stuck her chest out bravely, according to habit, and smiled a most friendly greeting.
— from Lilian by Arnold Bennett

Should the planet happen to be at the height of her splendour when the ceremony is performed, their future life will be a scene of festivity, and all its paths strewed over with rosebuds of delight.
— from Moon Lore by Timothy Harley

The long-knotted lash of the waggon-whip, bound about the handle with brazen rings, whistled in the air and curled up with a vicious snap.
— from Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies

The same elder generation which had looked upon Napoleon Bonaparte’s stony Cæsarian eye, when, like a god of war, unapproachable in his power he rode by at the head of his staff, now saw the Roi Citoyen, the long-exiled ex-school-master, homely and fond of law and order, as every day at the same hour he passed alone on foot and in plain clothes through the streets of Paris, the famous umbrella in his hand, rewarding each “Vive le Roi!” with a friendly smile and a grateful hand-shake.
— from The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century by Richard Muther

"I will call in the afternoon, day after to-morrow," replied Benjamin; and thanking him again for his great kindness, took his leave.
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer