But then, suddenly changing, she said, between laughing and glistening: 'Oh yes, I do though.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It would seem that the domestics had been previously instructed; for, instead of penetrating the thicket, they followed the route of the column; a measure which Heyward stated had been dictated by the sagacity of their guide, in order to diminish the marks of their trail, if, haply, the Canadian savages should be lurking so far in advance of their army.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

natural that under such circumstances something should be lost, or even stolen.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Then the patient, knowing perhaps the physician's taste for the marvellous, related how there was a certain boy in the place who could see spirits by looking into an earthen vessel, but Cardan was little impressed by what he saw, and began to talk with the school-master about Archimedes.
— from Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters

But there are some questions upon which the determining fact must be the preference of the people of the country or of a community; such as the question where a capital city or a county seat shall be located; the question whether a debt shall be incurred that will be a lien on their property for a specific purpose; the question whether the sale of intoxicating liquors shall he permitted.
— from Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution by Elihu Root

“If,” the passage runs, “Duke Charles should still be living, you shall be released from your oath to me.”
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

Each tiny cottony seed surrounded by long silky threads.
— from Common Trees of Pennsylvania by J. E. Aughenbaugh

It may be admitted to be no little extraordinary that a poor dyer's daughter in the fourteenth century should write these letters, such as they are; that she should possess so much knowledge of the general state of Church politics in Europe, as they evince; and most of all that having popes, kings, and cardinals for her correspondents, she should be listened to by them with respect and attention.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope