“Well, and will you consent to ha un to-morrow morning?” says Western.—“I will be obedient to you, sir,” cries she.—“Why then to-morrow morning be the day,” cries he.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

↑ 24 The four classes are not absolute, for the same adverb may be used in different senses and thus belong to different classes.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

They answered, 'Mr. Toad.'" There was a great deal more of the same sort, but too dreadfully conceited to be written down.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

" [120] Perhaps the most striking authority for the position that the judge's duties are not at an end when the question of negligence is reached, is shown by the discussions concerning the law of bailment.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Plants treating from fifty to a hundred and fifty bags per day are the most common; but the daily capacity runs up to a thousand bags or more.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Western beheld the deplorable condition of his daughter with no more contrition or remorse than the turnkey of Newgate feels at viewing the agonies of a tender wife, when taking her last farewel of her condemned husband; or rather he looked down on her with the same emotions which arise in an honest fair tradesman, who sees his debtor dragged to prison for £10, which, though a just debt, the wretch is wickedly unable to pay.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

And it is plain, all this is due not only to the bare title of father; not only because, as has been said, it is owing to the mother too; but because these obligations to parents, and the degrees of what is required of children, may be varied by the different care and kindness, trouble and expence, which is often employed upon one child more than another.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

A treble enclosure of brick walls was defended by a deep ditch; and the intrepid resistance of Count Lucilianus, and his garrison, was seconded by the desperate courage of the people.
— 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

And what is still more marvellous, no sooner has one gone down into the depths he will never rise from till the end of the world, than another takes his place; and if he too falls into the sea that waits for him like an enemy, another and another will succeed him without a moment’s pause between their deaths: courage and daring the greatest that all the chances of war can show.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The only issue between myself and Dr. Carpenter would appear to be, that Dr. Carpenter, himself an acknowledged leader in the scientific world, restricts the term “scientific” to the people who know that they know, but are beaten by those who are not so conscious of their own knowledge; while I say that the term “scientific” should be applied (only that they would not like it) to the nice sensible people who know what’s what rather than to the discovering class.
— from Life and Habit by Samuel Butler

Only by thy death can the Romans be overthrown, and Britain remain free.
— from Legends of Longdendale Being a series of tales founded upon the folk-lore of Longdendale Valley and its neighbourhood by Thomas C. (Thomas Cooke) Middleton

Il le mène bon train dans cette affaire
— from French Idioms and Proverbs A Companion to Deshumbert's "Dictionary of Difficulties" by de (Vinchelés Payen-Payne) V. Payen-Payne

In every case he will have shaped out such forms as belong to diamond crystals.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

On hearing this, the king at once despatched the Count of Ligny with a large force to besiege the disloyal city.
— from With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Dolly Williams Kirk

BALACHOWSKY: This document contains a record of the typhus cultures.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

However, they could not have lived more than half a minute, had not the Giant, with admirable presence of mind and surprising quickness, given the brazier such a tremendous kick with one of his heavy boots, that he sent it more than a mile and a half, into the midst of a distant herd of Yabouks, which were all instantly suffocated by the dense cloud of poisonous smoke which covered them, as the brazier fell, upside-down, right over the leader of the herd,
— from Ting-a-ling by Frank Richard Stockton

The coach "drove fast down the Strand, followed by a multitude of people, and those officers, not without danger to the coachman, from their violence, but with ease to the Ambassador, that had his house by this device cleaned of the constable."
— from The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck: A Scandal of the XVIIth Century by Thomas Longueville

[Pg 68] "After tea, when it was dark, there was a dance on the lawn by torchlight, the torches being held by the servants; the music consisted of a flute, cornet, and violin, but the cornet proved of no use, as some urchin had bunged it up with a cork before the dance commenced.
— from Leslie Ross; or, Fond of a Lark by Charles Bruce