Cheer up, Sir Knight, I may help thee yet.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

“But do you mean to say,” I said, “that without leaving your room you can unravel some knot which other men can make nothing of, although they have seen every detail for themselves?”
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

The manager was rather embarrassed, and said: “But, really, madame, we do not sell umbrellas; we cannot undertake such kinds of repairs.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Dr. Cathcart uttered some kind of unintelligible cry, turning as he did so with an instinctive movement of blind terror towards the protection of the tent, then halting in the act as though frozen. Simpson, alone of the three, retained his presence of mind a little.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

To substantiate this view, it may be recalled that the fundamental chemical individual in living thing is a very complex, unstable substance known as protoplasm.
— from Joseph Smith as Scientist: A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe

"I cannot understand," said Klingenberg hesitatingly, "how the materialists can make assertions which are untenable to the commonest understandings.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Wilcox’ brigade, on the extreme right, moved up the Mine road, in the direction of Duerson’s Mill; Wright’s brigade, on the extreme left, followed Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry on the unfinished railroad; while the main body, well closed up, still kept to the main highways.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

She put the envelope into her bosom after studying it again carefully until she knew the words by heart.
— from The Girl from Montana by Grace Livingston Hill

12:017:003 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 12: 2 Kings by Anonymous

The admission cost us six kreuzers.
— from My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner

A relation, but an enemy to the family, a notorious robber and villain, called Ussaun Sing, kept as a hawk in a mew, to fly upon this nation, was set up to govern there, instead of a prince honored and beloved.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

But now he, or I should say she—for it is the women who rule when it comes to fashion—is not content unless she knows everything, or thinks she does, from the first chapter in Genesis to the latest novelty on the Boulevards, the latest club gossip in Pall Mall.
— from Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

p. 41: Philip comes to C. up stage, Kate rises and meets him )—Changed closing parenthesis to a period.
— from A Fool's Paradise: An Original Play in Three Acts by Sydney Grundy