It was a splendid chance of putting your theories into practice, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Though slightly uneasy at this change of programme, yet believing that in an editor’s house I ought to be safe, and anyhow that I would be within hail of the street, I hurriedly, and but partially whispered my dim apprehensions to Mr. Cummings, and asked him if he would not keep near enough to hear my voice in case I should call.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

An Americanized English Grocer's Shop Ernest Carter's store at St. Albans, England, operated under the name of Thomas Oakley & Co., has a distinctly American atmosphere, accounted for by the fact that the fittings were supplied by an American manufacturer, the Walker Bin Co., of Penn Yan, N.Y.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Though thy body which is so near it should either be cut or burnt, or suffer any corruption or putrefaction, yet let that part to which it belongs to judge of these, be still at rest; that is, let her judge this, that whatsoever it is, that equally may happen to a wicked man, and to a good man, is neither good nor evil.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

By the holy Saint Babingoose, cried out Pantagruel, you are become, since the last rain, a great lifrelofre,—philosopher, I should say.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Nor must it be thought that this is a case of putting yourselves into danger for a country which is not yours.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

“At that rate I’d like the contract of providing you with many such nights,” he said.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

You, sir, for instance, might very well be taken into a Government department again; they might make you secretary to a Commissary of Police; you could accept that post without prejudice to your retiring pension.”
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

That morning, on my way from the Bureau, I had seen a great company of white banners moving together; and, on inquiry, had found that these were the miraculés chiefly of previous years—about three hundred and fifty in number.
— from Lourdes by Robert Hugh Benson

The most commercial of people, you submitted to a total suspension of business, and without a murmur adopted my principle, 'Citizens for labor, soldiers for battle.'
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I will give you ten pounds to furnish a room and get into it, and I will pay you five shillings a week as long as it lives; and if you ever get hard up and want a couple of pounds you can have 'em, so as you don't come too often.'
— from Dorothy's Double. Volume 1 (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The street was up-hill but was very clean and straight, and though the houses were lower here than in the city of Perdition , yet they were more pleasant.
— from The Sleeping Bard; Or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Ellis Wynne

After the defeat Nonnius observed that they ought to have good hopes, for that seven eagles were left in the camp of Pompeius, “Your advice would be good,” said Cicero, “if we were fighting with jack-daws.”
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

[Pg 10] law-abiding child of peace, yet passed his days in seeing his children slaughtered, his wife tortured, his ranches laid waste, and himself shot down and scalped.
— from The heritage of unrest by Gwendolen Overton

“By-the-bye,” continued D’Artagnan, “should this man attempt to fly or to call out, pass your sword through his body.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

"There was the case of poor young Lady Marshflower—as sweet a young thing as man could wish to see!
— from The Middle of Things by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

She: I wish you’d—— You: Come on, put your face up.
— from Seductio Ad Absurdum The Principles & Practices of Seduction, A Beginner's Handbook by Emily Hahn