" "May I ask who that person is?" "No, Mr. Dawson," answered Robert, decisively; "I cannot reveal anything more than what I have already told you.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

We reached Jackson at the same time; McPherson fighting on the Clinton road, and my troops fighting just outside the town, on the Raymond road, where we captured three entire field-batteries, and about two hundred prisoners of war.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

A gentleman, on whom I can rely, assured me that he had been an eye-witness of the following scene:—A small dinner-party was given in honour of an extremely shy man, who, when he rose to return thanks, rehearsed the speech, which he had evidently learnt by heart, in absolute silence, and did not utter a single word; but he acted as if he were speaking with much emphasis.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

If on the other hand he had surprised me loitering in Gaul and clinging to bare life and, while I tried to avoid the danger, had attacked me on all sides, in the rear and on the flanks by means of the barbarians, and in front by his own legions, I should I believe have had to face complete ruin, and moreover the disgrace of such conduct is greater than any punishment—at least in the sight of the wise.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

He points to the clerks' room and moves towards the outer office.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

The last exception is necessity, poverty, want, hunger, which drives men many times to do that which otherwise they are loath, cannot endure, and thankfully to accept of it: as beverage in ships, and in sieges of great cities, to feed on dogs, cats, rats, and men themselves.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

You can read all messages to/from a given person, from a given message number, and from a given date.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The Coroner reflected a moment, then he said: “I believe,
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Staggering ashore under my bagful of assorted junk, I at once struck out along the “camino real,” a mere trail which first climbed to a slight plateau with a view back on Ciudad Bolívar, then broke into thinly scrub-wooded pampa or sandy llanos covered with tuft-grass as far as the eye could see.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

Constant references are made to these in the "Letters."
— from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies by John Dickinson

And all that his mother had written simply tended to push him on to complete his work before Bauer could return and make the necessary discovery for himself.
— from The High Calling by Charles M. Sheldon

Among the Panwār Rājpūts a child is initiated when about two years old by being given cooked rice and milk to eat.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Now that science has brought them within the field of careful research, and made them an object of serious study, it has invested them with a certain dignity in the esteem of mankind, and imparted to them a new aspect among animals.
— from Gorillas & Chimpanzees by R. L. (Richard Lynch) Garner

For the Separatists during their sojourn in Holland had accepted the creed of that nation of traders, and held with them that marriage is merely a civil contract, requiring a magistrate to secure the proper amount of goods to each party, and make sure that neither defrauded the other.
— from Standish of Standish: A Story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin

Nor is there any tower so strong, or walls so broad, that can resist any more than its first batteries, but all are forced to yield to it at last.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

"I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars on your memory, [Pg 54] where they will be ready either for practice on some future occasion, if they are matters of utility, or, at least, to adorn and improve your conversation, if they are rather points of curiosity; and, as many of the terms of science are such as you cannot have met with in your common reading, and may therefore be unacquainted with, I think it would be well for you to have a good dictionary at hand, to consult immediately when you meet with a word you do not comprehend the precise meaning of.
— from The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. by William Makepeace Thayer

Close behind him came Rob and Merritt, the latter with the horse’s hitching rope in his hand.
— from The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal by John Henry Goldfrap