But Mr. Mills, the butler, assured him that Captain Donnithorne had given particular orders about it, and would be very angry if Adam was not there.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Before taking his departure, the sergeant, in order to acquit his policeman’s conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean Valjean.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And as the dam runs lowing up and down, Looking the way her harmless young one went, And can do nought but wail her darling's loss, Even so myself bewails good Gloucester's case With sad unhelpful tears, and with dimm'd eyes Look after him, and cannot do him good, So mighty are his vowed enemies.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He was a man that made his crutches do him good service.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The Duke of Athens did a great many foolish things in the establishment of his new tyranny over Florence: but this especially was most notable, that having received the first intimation of the conspiracies the people were hatching against him, from Matteo di Morozzo, one of the conspirators, he presently put him to death, to suppress that rumour, that it might not be thought any of the city disliked his government.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

‘Capital dinners he gave.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

He settled himself on the Tackles of a Gun, which one Stephenson , from the Helm, observing, ran to his Assistance, and not perceiving him wounded, swore at him, and bid him stand up, and fight like a Man; but when he found his Mistake, and that his Captain was certainly dead, he gushed into Tears, and wished the next Shot might be his Lot.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

At the same time Capt. Demont has "gill rum sling, 1s.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

At Wellesley, the methods in certain departments have gained a deservedly high reputation.
— from The Story of Wellesley by Florence Converse

How choicely does his grave, acute nonsense moralize the scenes wherein he moves!
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

'I could not make out, sir, who she was,' said Murray's clerk, describing her grace's appearance and manner, 'for she would not tell me her name; but she swore so dreadfully that I am sure she must be a lady of quality .'"
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

Though he was living in free quarters now, the bills contracted during his great London season began to come tumbling in, many for the second or third time.
— from A Young Man's Year by Anthony Hope

This conciliatory disposition has grown stronger and stronger in me.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

V Works dealing specially with the Albigenses and the Origins of the Inquisition J. J. Vaissete and C. Devic, Histoire Générale de Languedoc (Toulouse, 1872-1904).
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville

"For who lived king, but I could dig his grave?
— from A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire by J. Arthur (Joseph Arthur) Gibbs

In flattery completely doused, He gave the "Jewel Song" from "Faust."
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson