Lady Audley rung the bell violently, and it was answered by Phoebe Marks.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

You see, my dears, that although I am still young—or Mr. Bayham Badger pays me the compliment of saying so—" "No," Mr. Badger called out like some one contradicting at a public meeting.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I thought no more about it, but presently my niece came in and asked me why I had vexed poor Annette.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

— N. intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit &c. 498; ability &c. (skill) 698; wisdom &c. 498; Vernunft[Ger], Verstand[Ger]. soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis[Lat], divina particula aurae[Lat], heart's core; the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

New names of Patriots emerge, which shall one day become familiar: Boyer-Fonfrede eloquent denunciator of a rebellious Bourdeaux Parlement; Max Isnard eloquent reporter of the Federation of Draguignan; eloquent pair, separated by the whole breadth of France, who are nevertheless to meet.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The good man says; "Royal your sports may be, Call them whate'er you like, but pity me; Those dogs and people did more harm to-day Than all the hares for fifty years, I say."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

[53] than by private measures; and lest the feelings of the children of Tarquin might be the same towards himself as those of the children of Ancus had been towards Tarquin, he unites his two daughters in marriage to the young princes, the Tarquinii, Lucius and Aruns.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

And the assumption has been followed by persecution, misery, and bloodshed.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

"You don't know what it is to want spiritual tobacco—bad emendations of old texts, or small items about a variety of Aphis Brassicae, with the well-known signature of Philomicron, for the 'Twaddler's Magazine;' or a learned treatise on the entomology of the Pentateuch, including all the insects not mentioned, but probably met with by the Israelites in their passage through the desert; with a monograph on the Ant, as treated by Solomon, showing the harmony of the Book of Proverbs with the results of modern research.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

There is an admirable account of the form of government adopted by the Spaniards for New Spain, by Professor Moses, in the Yale Review , vol.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

CHRISTOPHER, You have been pleased many times, in very decided terms, to express your ever-to-be-respected conviction that I should eventually come to something; haply to the woolsack—possibly to the gallows; from which prophetic sentiment, I have naturally inferred that my genius was rare, and that your eagle eye had discovered it.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

" "There's nobody more considerate than you be," protested Miss Rebecca Wright.
— from Strangers and Wayfarers by Sarah Orne Jewett

Pirithous, no small portion of the war, Pressed on, and shook his lance; to whom from far, Thus Theseus cried: O stay, my better part, My more than mistress; of my heart, the heart!
— from The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes; Vol. 12 (of 18) by John Dryden

" Here again the part taken by prominent men from all political parties demonstrated the non-partisan character of the woman's campaign.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Unnamed be HE from whom creation came; There is no word whereby to speak His name But petty men have mouthed it into shame.
— from New Thought Pastels by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

But, pray, madam, how came the poets and philosophers, that laboured so
— from The Beaux-Stratagem by George Farquhar

My blanket protected me well; I was perfectly dry, and soon fast asleep again.
— from Wild Sports in the Far West by Friedrich Gerstäcker

As the birching proceeded, Madame occasionally placed her hand on the bottom of the penitent, which tended so to increase Ethel's excitement that, wildly squeezing the cushion between her thighs, she spent copiously.
— from The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies by Anonymous