He then immediately run up and laid hold of Jones, crying, “We have got the dog fox, I warrant the bitch is not far off.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

that for two years after this I believe I never fired my gun once off, though I never went out without it; and what was more, as I had saved three pistols out of the ship, I always carried them out with me, or at least two of them, sticking them in my goat-skin belt.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

I dare swear we’ll do their business for them with a wet finger; they’ll bear it, never fear; since they could swallow down more foul language that came from us than ten sows and their babies could swill hogwash.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I had before regarded my promise with a gloomy despair as a thing that, with whatever consequences, must be fulfilled; but I now felt as if a film had been taken from before my eyes and that I for the first time saw clearly.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

One lady rises and says good-by, the hostess rises and shakes hands and rings a bell (if necessary) for the servant to be in the hall to open the door.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Although this variety of the spathomele is not one which is specially mentioned by any classical writer, it is convenient to have a name by which we can denote that variety of the spathomele in which the blade is not flat.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

I don’t know if you will understand my feeling, but I never felt quite safe at my back.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A flock of sheep or a herd of cattle, that, in a breeding country, is brought in neither for labour nor for sale, but in order to make a profit by their wool, by their milk, and by their increase, is a fixed capital.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

There is a pretty story about a swallow which built its nest for its young ( idoj ) on the king's tent.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

If then, man, though bound in Nature, finds his central self utterly diverse from, and superior to Nature, so that he instinctively cries, "My soul is worth more than a Universe of gold and diamonds;" a fortiori must that Being, who is the Ultimate Ground, not only of Nature, but of those supernatural intelligences who live in Nature, be supernatural, spiritual, and supreme?
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

I have roamed through many a land and city, But I never found the sought-for maiden;
— from Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians by Woislav M. Petrovitch

She also liked her little girls, though she took very little trouble about them; and, though it cannot be denied that Satan did find some mischief for her idle heart and brain, if not for her idle hands to do, he did not often manage to lower her spirits or ruffle her temper.
— from Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

I must confess, this effect is not wrought on such as examine why they are pleased; but it never fails to appear on those who are not too learned in nature, to be moved by her first suggestions.
— from The Tatler, Volume 1 by Steele, Richard, Sir

They went in bodies, in numbers from a handful from some remote but pious hamlet to great armies from the leveled cities of Joppa, Ptolemais and Anthedon, from Cæsarea and Tyre and Sidon, from the enthusiastic towns in Galilee, and even from far-off Antioch and Ephesus.
— from The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Elizabeth Miller

“I do not think that she or anyone can say that Bessy is not fit to be the wife of the finest gentleman in the land.”
— from Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

Page 19 The fight with Fafni is not described in verse, very little of this poetry being in narrative form; but Fafnismal gives a dialogue between the wounded dragon and his slayer.
— from The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 by L. Winifred Faraday

With displeasing coarseness, and with most reprehensible recklessness of reasoning, Luther says, in contradiction to the essential nobleness of his loving, heroic nature, ‘If you believe in no future life, I would not give a mushroom for your God.
— from The state of the dead and the destiny of the wicked by Uriah Smith

“I joined the rebel army, after I had tried every way in the world to get out of this infernal country; but I never fired a gun at a Union man.
— from The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army: A Story of the Great Rebellion by Oliver Optic

"I have needed a dress for a good while," she said, "but I never felt that I could spare the money to buy even a common one.
— from Luke Walton by Alger, Horatio, Jr.