Enraged at seeing these people arrogantly dispose of my property, I again took up the memoir I had sent to M. D’Argenson, to which no answer had been returned, and having made some trifling alterations in it, I sent the manuscript by M. Sellon, resident from Geneva, and a letter with which he was pleased to charge himself, to the Comte de St. Florentin, who had succeeded M. D’Argenson in the opera department.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The bonds remained in force until November the 8th of the same year, when, no indictment having been returned against him, Mr. Sullivan appeared with his attorney before Judge Baker and demanded that his bondsmen should [Pg 300] be released and himself declared discharged from all further connection with the case.
— from The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

A message, however, came down to hasten him, and when—as he had often before done in cottages—he demanded of Nurse Jones whether private baptism were immediately necessary, she allowed that she saw no pressing danger, but added, “that the lady was in a way about it,” and this both Rachel and her maid strongly corroborated.
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Courtier.—how much of those may be retained, and how much shall be surrendered to him for the use of the Crown; furthermore, all Appointments to spiritual offices—and this ought to interest you—to spiritual offices, minor as well as major, can hereafter be made only with the sanction of the King, so that— Olof.
— from Master Olof: A Drama in Five Acts by August Strindberg

As we sat at breakfast Rodman asked, "How many salmon did you ever kill in a day, Kingfisher?"
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various

Anxious as she was to ascertain if there was any relationship between Robert and her mother, she forebore to question him on the subject which lay so near her heart.
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper