So I can have struck , etc.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

He seems to have crossed the whole of Europe, from fair to fair, and to have completed his strange education as an artist and magician at the very fountain-head of art and magic, among the Gipsies.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

“Yes, and what you told me on that head, confirmed an idea which I had entertained before.—I do not mean to reflect upon the good intentions of either Mr. Dixon or Miss Fairfax, but I cannot help suspecting either that, after making his proposals to her friend, he had the misfortune to fall in love with her , or that he became conscious of a little attachment on her side.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

In the nocturnal council of the camp he was chosen to command: his skilful evolutions of the ensuing day secured either the victory or the retreat of the Saracens; and Caled is renowned among his brethren and his enemies by the glorious appellation of the Sword of God.
— 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

"Her hair was yellow in small curls, her smiling eyes blue-green, her face clear and feat, the little lips very red, the teeth small and white; and the daisies which she crushed in passing, holding her skirt high behind and before, looked dark against her feet; the girl was so white!
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common hangman shall execute it.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"What is it you are waiting for here?" asked K., politely, but the man was startled at being spoken to unexpectedly, which was all the more pitiful to see because the man clearly had some experience of the world and elsewhere would certainly have been able to show his superiority and would not have easily given up the advantage he had acquired.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

“Explain, my child,” he said, “Explain, my child,” he said, “explain—where did you find this purse?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Colonel had sent Ethel a beautiful little gold watch and chain.
— from Boys and Girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Now if this is to be the destiny of America,—an unbounded material growth, followed by corruption and ruin,—then Columbus has simply extended the realm for men to try material experiments.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord

He was a man of known courage; had some experience in such affairs; was troubled with no scruple or hesitation of any kind; and was prompt, active, and clear sighted.
— from Charles Tyrrell; or, The Bitter Blood. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

My Lord and Sir William Coventry had some earnest words about it, the one promoting it for his private ends, being, as Cocke tells me himself, to have L500 if the bargain goes on, and I am to have as much, and the other opposing it for the unseasonableness of it, not knowing at all whose the proposition is, which seems the more ingenious of the two.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Although the companions had started early, they met single churchgoers on their way to Upper Wood, for these people wanted to look around on their way to church, to see how things were in the fields and gardens, and so they had set off in good time.
— from Erick and Sally by Johanna Spyri

“Sin crucified Him,” said Ermine quietly; “your sins and mine, was it not?
— from One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Emily Sarah Holt

On returning to England in the spring of 1799, Wordsworth, after spending some months with friends at Sockburn-on-Tees, wisely determined to have a fixed place of abode for himself, and, of course, his sister; eventually selecting that spot which is more than all others associated with his name and memory.
— from Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love by Edmund Lee

In fact, he aspired to the first rank, and, as there were many preferred before him, in consequence of his [Pg 468] character, he secretly endeavoured to win the favour of Fimbria's army, and to excite the soldiers against Lucullus, by circulating among them words well suited to those who were ready to hear them, and were not unaccustomed to be courted.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

“ Et les chambres ,” howls she, “ et la maison, et tout, tout! ”
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

Pierrot changed his sulky expression for a threatening one.
— from The War of Women, Volume 1 by Alexandre Dumas