“How?” exclaimed the Templar; “deliver up our prisoners, and stand an object alike of ridicule and execration, as the doughty warriors who dared by a night-attack to possess themselves of the persons of a party of defenceless travellers, yet could not make good a strong castle against a vagabond troop of outlaws, led by swineherds, jesters, and the very refuse of mankind?—Shame on thy counsel, Maurice de Bracy!—The ruins of this castle shall bury both my body and my shame, ere I consent to such base and dishonourable composition.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

My last breath was drawn:-- then in comes Monsieur de Bergerac!
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

All of a sudden, as I knelt beside him, three bare swords were flourished over my head, and three noble assassins prepared to cut me down beside their master.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

;) and the unknown editor quotes his author, who had received it from Helene de Courtenay, marquise de Beaufremont.] III.
— 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

“I don’t know what you may do in England,” cried Madame Duval, “but I know in Paris no woman needn’t be at such a trouble as that to be taken very genteel notice of.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

At No. 7, Rue Villedo, the maid-servant who opened the door to me ushered me into a room where were Carnot, Michel de Bourges, Jules Favre, and the master of the house, our former colleague, Constituent Leblond.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop

The debilitated cousin, more debilitated by the dreariness of the place, gets into a fearful state of depression, groaning under penitential sofa-pillows in his gunless hours and protesting that such fernal old jail's—nough t'sew fler up—frever.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

You must not call me "dear Bill" until the day after to-morrow, or I shall have to tell you how it came to be I was called Bill by the Emperor of Morocco.
— from Under St Paul's: A Romance by Richard Dowling

Generally, capture by the enemy is the form of individual calamity most dreaded by the gallant soldier who knows he is fighting for the right, and particularly so if the foe be ruthless or treacherous.
— from The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by James E. (James Edward) Talmage

This entry gives the cumulative US dollar value of all investments in the home country made directly by residents - primarily companies - of other countries as of the end of the time period indicated.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

There was also a slip of paper in another hand, the contents of which the Countess did not think it necessary to mention, being simply these words: “If you hear not of me soon, and that by the trumpet of Fame, conclude me dead, but not unworthy.” A thought, hitherto repelled as wildly incredible, now glanced with double keenness through Isabelle's soul.
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott

But Florence,” Jeanne’s eyes shone with a strange light, “even under those terrible circumstances, men did believe.
— from The Crystal Ball A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

He was by no means a coward, M. de B——, and his first thought was of his wife, and of the alarm which a hue and cry raised at such an hour might occasion her; so after calling ‘ Qui vive? ’
— from Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 1 (of 2) by Colmache, M., active 19th century

Capmany, Mem. de Barcelona, tom. ii. Apend.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

“Charlie, my dear boy, don’t make me ridiculous, don’t make people laugh at me.
— from The Sorceress, v. 3 of 3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Don’t you think that I guessed that creature Madam de Bonnivet invited him to supper last evening, or else to see her home, or worse still?
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget

As at first I paid no attention to his demand, as far as it concerned the furniture at Ruel, he directed Duroc to write the following letter to me: The First Consul, my dear Bourrienne, has just ordered me to send him this evening the keys of your residence in Paris, from which the furniture is not to be removed.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 06 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne