En all you wuz thinkin’ ’bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

She certainly made a fine appearance.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

I can make allowances for people, and used to laugh in her face.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

These divisions, composed usually of infantry, artillery, and cavalry, maneuvered and fought separately.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Be that, however, one way or the other, when I awaked I found myself exceedingly refreshed, and my spirits lively and cheerful; when I got up I was stronger than I was the day before, and my stomach better, for I was hungry; and, in short, I had no fit the next day, but continued much altered for the better.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Of the six deputies, two repassed the Alps to announce their success, while their four companions made a fruitless trial of the zeal and emulation of the republics of Genoa and Pisa.
— 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

Ah, she who counted many a friend Was left for fiends to seize and rend, Was left by me without defence From ravening giants' violence.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Being advised that the sensible etiquette of the republican court admitted of a traveller, like myself, declining, without any impropriety, an invitation to dinner, which did not reach me until I had concluded my arrangements for leaving Washington some days before that to which it referred, I only returned to this house once.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

After a careful consideration of these, and an elaborate estimate of his resources, he had come to the conclusion to select that sum which represented the amount with compound interest to two years, fifteen calendar months, and fourteen days, from that date.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The most sympathetic, and certainly the most important, of those chosen by me for the conference meeting at Fischhof's house, was undoubtedly Dr. Becher, a passionate and exceedingly cultivated man.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

And still, warm courage, calming many a fear, Heartens my hand once more thy harp to try To join the anthem of the minstrel year: For summer’s music in thy praise is high; The very winds about thy mantle sigh Love-melodies; thy minstrel bards to be, Insects and birds, exerting all their skill, Float in continued song for mastery, While in thy haunts loud leaps the little rill, To kiss thy mantle’s hem; and how can I be still?
— from Poems by John Clare

On June the seventh the commitee met again for the dispatch of business, when, among other things, they voted their thanks to Dr. Baker, of Lower Grosvenor Street, who had been one of my first assistants, for his services to the cause.
— from The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I by Thomas Clarkson

Who knows what complications might arise from that?
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

To make this clear to the general reader, he need only be told that tetanus is nearly always caused by mechanical injuries, and that the natural increase of these in a place like Chicago may account for a large part of the increase.
— from Wear and Tear; Or, Hints for the Overworked by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

It would certainly mean a fall of thirty feet or more.
— from The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol Or, The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss

The little Chevalier made a formal bow, and hastened to say that he was not at all hurt.
— from The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 1 by Gilbert Parker

Having obtained the best information accessible from hunters and others who had gone farthest in that direction, I determined to proceed, as early as I could complete my arrangements for that purpose, to explore those elevations.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

"No, but I can make a fair estimate, I think," and glancing at the empty chamber in which the bar had been, he took out his notebook and pen and figured for a few minutes.
— from The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Read the one beginning, “Alone, alone, why am I so alone?” Just as this point the clock struck four, followed by the low chimes from the belfry of the nearby church, and Mrs. Deacon suddenly remembered that she was due at a committee meeting at four-fifteen.
— from Jane Lends A Hand by Shirley Watkins