“Never mind what they called me,” he said grimly.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

But yesterday, the word of Cæsar might Have stood against the world: now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

I inferred that the clock must have stopped going just a few minutes before.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

How public credit must have suffered, I need not say.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The tinsmiths looked the Woodman over carefully and then answered that they thought they could mend him so he would be as good as ever.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

" "What original notions you clever men have!" said Rosamond, dimpling with more thorough laughter than usual at this humorous incongruity.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Two copies might have sufficed for the East and West; but Eugenius was not satisfied, unless four authentic and similar transcripts were signed and attested as the monuments of his victory.
— 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

The over-fine cloak, the horse now in good condition, might have something to do with it, contrasting as they certainly did with the purse in the last stages of emaciation.
— from Foes by Mary Johnston

The rim may be supposed to have been piled up by successive discharges of lava from a central orifice; and after the subsidence of the paroxysm the lava still in a molten condition may have sunk down, forming a seething lake within the vast circular rampart, as in the case of the Hawaiian volcanoes.
— from Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull

Now, the actual fact is, that those three people wandered around that far-away land until the morning vanished and the loud peal of the Chautauqua bells announced the fact that the feast of intellect was over, and it was time for dinner They went from Bethany to Bethel, and from Bethel to Shechem, and they even climbed Mount Hermon's snowy peak, and looked about on the lovely plain below.
— from Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy

"But yesterday, the word of Cæsar might Have stood against the world.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

And I should have been to the front with Bacon, boy as I was, had it not been for my mother—that you know well and could make her sure of.
— from The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

where? “You can cure me,” he stuttered out; “what of?—the folly of trying to speak in public?
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"You must keep quiet at the checks, Mona," he said, "and let Darby alone.
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers