"I hope, Ma," sobbed poor Caddy at last, "you are not angry?"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“How is it that the convicts are lying yonder dead, in the middle of the enclosure?” answered the engineer.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But, having regard to the context, we can hardly doubt that Sun Tzu is holding up I Chih and Lu Ya as illustrious examples of the converted spy, or something closely analogous.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

“One of the horses has a sore neck from the new collar,” answered Lobytko, yawning.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But that cry, Even from her chamber in the river-deeps, His mother heard: around her spun the nymphs Milesian wool stained through with hyaline dye, Drymo, Xantho, Ligea, Phyllodoce, Their glossy locks o'er snowy shoulders shed, Cydippe and Lycorias yellow-haired, A maiden one, one newly learned even then To bear Lucina's birth-pang.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

If it will afford you any gratification, I’ll observe it more closely, and let you know.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Do you mind if I cry a little, you very dear?"
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

This circumstance, at least, you know already.' 'Not I,' said Monks, turning away his eyes and beating his foot upon the ground, as a man who is determined to deny everything.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The hearse halts, the undertaker’s men knot a rope around your coffin and lower you down.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"Because, sir, he is such a mysterious little sacket," replied Cathro, testily, "and so clever at leading you into a hole, that it's not chancey to meddle with him, and I could see through the corner of my eye that, for all this woeful face, he was proud of it, and hoped I was taking note.
— from Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Big, yellow cats and little yellow men are not good neighbors unless they’ve agreed in advance to behave.
— from Panther Eye by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

"Oh! Kate, run down to him, will you, dearest, say I am too unwell to see him, for a week to come, at least; you will—observe—there go, darling."
— from Kate Vernon: A Tale. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Mrs. Alexander

"'Ow," she said, "yuv come at last, ye bleedin' makeshift!"
— from Sixpenny Pieces by A. Neil (Albert Neil) Lyons

Long-Jack, name given to the tree Flindersia oxleyana, F. v. M., N.O. Meliaceae; called also Light Yellow-Wood.
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

Sir Matthew, significantly touching his lordship's elbow, while casting a sly wink across the table, enjoined;—'Fellow citizens and ladies, your lordship!'
— from The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton

Venus shining well and happily (that is) when in her tuberculum, she presents a clear star, or furrows that are red and transversely parallel, and so often as her tuberculum is much elevated, makes such men to be merry, cheerful and luxurious; yet amorous, comely and libidinous, very honest and just, with whom an uninterrupted tie of friendship once made is permanent.
— from The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; together with the application and observance of talismen charms, spells and incantations. by A. H. Noe

I intend to put a prize-crew on board this craft, and leave you some of your own men, and if you take her and them safe into the Sherbro River, you shall have your liberty and go wherever you like after the vessel has sailed.
— from The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa by William Henry Giles Kingston

He tried pleading, and the walnut creaked a little, yet remained whole.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 21st, 1916 by Various

,” said the captain at length; “yet with such a prize to win I think that I would dare it, though for the soldiers I cannot speak.
— from Morning Star by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard