I will go and ask Pundit and be back in a minute....
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

For my own part, I can say they give me more pleasure than others that may be better brought in and more seasonably introduced."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Then being dressed, down by water to Deptford, and there did a great deale of business, being in a mighty hurry, Sir W. Coventry writing to me that there was some thoughts that the Dutch fleete were out or coming out.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Mr Boffin, submitting to be led on tiptoe to the nursery door, looked in with immense satisfaction, although there was nothing to see but Bella in a musing state of happiness, seated in a little low chair upon the hearth, with her child in her fair young arms, and her soft eyelashes shading her eyes from the fire.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

He made you for a highway to my bed; But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

During that calamitous period, every instant of time was marked, every province of the Roman world was afflicted, by barbarous invaders, and military tyrants, and the ruined empire seemed to approach the last and fatal moment of its dissolution.
— 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

[54] Paulinus was a native of Bordeaux, and both by inheritance and marriage acquired great wealth, which, after his conversion in his thirty-sixth year, he distributed to the poor.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observ'd by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are in other countries.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Schopenhauer's conception of the utilitarian nature of bodily beauty is a more general application of the same idea.
— from On Love by Stendhal

I had seen something like it in the plate prefixed to Troilus and Cressida, in Rowe's Shakspeare—the tent scene with Diomede—and a sight of that plate can always bring back in a measure the feeling of that evening.—The boxes at that time, full of well-dressed women of quality, projected over the pit; and the pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling—a homely fancy—but I judged it to be sugar-candy—yet, to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy!—The orchestra lights at length arose, those "fair Auroras!"
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The Ta-lí Sz’ , or Court of Judicature and Revision, has the duty of adjusting all the criminal courts in the Empire, and forms the nearest approach to a Supreme Court in the government, though the cases brought before it are mostly criminal.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

"Mother will be back in a moment.
— from Kitty's Conquest by Charles King

But between it and me was a big krantz, and I pulled up on the very brink, just in time to escape going over.
— from Renshaw Fanning's Quest: A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford

If the soul were a trivial thing, or if a man, though he lost it, might yet himself be happy, it were another matter; but the loss of the soul is no small loss, nor can that man that has lost his soul, had he all the world, yea, the whole kingdom of heaven, in his own power be but in a most fearful and miserable condition.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

It's a wonderful chance, for of course we all benefit by it as much as Hubert."
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

I'll be back in a moment.
— from Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

Victor Hugues, upon the recall of Mr. Adet, ordered that all vessels carrying on trade to what he called rebel ports, should be brought in and made legal prizes of.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

If Jesus had been born in a miraculous way, the disciples must have known it.
— from The Inside of the Cup — Complete by Winston Churchill

" The beautiful soul harmonizing with a beautiful body is as much the glorious ideal of Plato as it is the end of the education of Aristotle.
— from Man's Redemption of Man: A Lay Sermon by William Osler