"I have brought," said he, "some pilgrims hither, where, by my Lord's commandment, they must lodge.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Although it was quite comfortable weather, and we had nothing on but straw hats, shirts, and duck trowsers, and were barefooted, they had, every man of them, double-soled boots, coming up to the knees, and well greased; thick woolen trowsers, frocks, waistcoats, pea-jackets, woolen caps, and everything in true Nova Zembla rig; and in the warmest days they made no change.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The plague was forgotten, in this new fear which the black sun had spread; and, though the dead multiplied, and the streets of Ispahan, of Pekin, and of Delhi were strewed with pestilence-struck corpses, men passed on, gazing on the ominous sky, regardless of the death beneath their feet.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Ferdinand no sooner recovered from the confusion produced by this unexpected repulse, than he saw the necessity of coming to a speedy determination, lest the offended fair one should appeal to Renaldo, in which case they might be mutually undeceived, to his utter shame and confusion; he therefore resolved to deprecate her anger by humble supplications, and by protesting, that, whatever tortures he might suffer by suppressing his sentiments, she should never again be offended with a declaration of his passion.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Agincourt was also a title conferred upon a herald, in memory of that signal victory; and lands were granted to him for life, 6th Henry V., as mentioned by Sir Henry Spelman; but whether the office was continued, or any particular province assigned to this officer, cannot be ascertained.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The sun sank, the air grew chilly, but still he sat on watching the lights of the fishing smacks as they appeared, one by one, out at sea.
— from The Second String by Nat Gould

None had been destroyed, but shell holes surrounded the fortifications.
— from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau

But suppose he says, "But he left the money to you."
— from Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangelist by Dwight Lyman Moody

"But, sir," he said in a low tone, "the boys had looked forward so much to getting a chance to learn to fly on the old bus.
— from The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps by James R. Driscoll

Lord Buntingford shrugged his shoulders— "I have no doubt you could help her in a great many things.
— from Helena by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The descent was by several hundred steps, sometimes of wood, then of stone, and again of earth, which we made on foot, while the horses were led by a longer road around.
— from Letters from Switzerland by Samuel Irenæus Prime

Let us rejoice and exult, and give to Him the glory!” Through what cleansing fires, through what baptisms even of blood she has still to pass ere the consummation is reached, He only knows who loved her and gave Himself for her.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay