“I say, but I am drunk, assez causé ,” he said.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the matter is divers and confused, how should it otherwise be, but that the species should be divers and confused?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It happened this gentlewoman being vnmaried, had a brother who went to schoole with the said Doctor, and calling his Scholler to him, demaunded if he did lye with his sister, who answered he did, by meanes wherof he thought to obtaine his purpose, and therefore secretlye promised to teach him without stripes, so he would obtain for him three haires of his sisters priuities, [pg 101] at such time as he should spye best occasion for it: which the youth promised faithfullye to perfourme, and vowed speedily to put it in practise, taking a peece of coniured paper of his maister to lappe them in when he had gotten them: and therevpon the boye practised nightlye to obtaine his maisters purpose, especially when his sister was a sleepe.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

There are some who represent his father as the person who inflicted the punishment: that [Pg 129] he, having tried him at home, scourged him and put him to death, and consecrated his son's private property to Ceres; that out of this a statue was set up and inscribed, "given from the Cassian family."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

But he left His kingdom in the forest-shades to dwell, And changed his sceptre for a hermit's staff,
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

Amidst tumult and dismay, the whole plan of the attack and defence was distinctly present to his mind; he observed the changes of each instant, weighed every possible advantage, transported his person to the scenes of danger, and communicated his spirit in calm and decisive orders.
— 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

He rose and swiftly dressed, and called his squire.
— from King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert

It was, no doubt, as Cutbill had said; but then there was not only the sight of the fire flashing out along the length of the vessel as far as the doorway permitted the eye to follow the deck, to the roaring, ebony, perpendicular discharge of the clouds; there was the tremendous thought of our being perched on the head of a newly-formed volcanic rock, that had leapt into existence on such another night as this.
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

“Then we’d better get a door and carry him somewhere,” suggested the policeman.
— from The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne by George Manville Fenn

At the precise moment when Madame de Dey died at Carentan, her son was shot in Le Morbihan.
— from Honoré de Balzac by Honoré de Balzac

“And I don't suppose one should do a corporation harm,” she said quickly,—“even to do humanity good?”
— from The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

The two illustrious brothers, the Gracchi, have shared this unjust treatment of historians, and in the estimation of many, pass to-day as dangerous and seditious characters whose death alone could have saved Rome from greater calamities.
— from Famous Assassinations of History from Philip of Macedon, 336 B. C., to Alexander of Servia, A. D. 1903 by Francis Johnson

Others ran to procure a hook—others called to him to take up the rope again, if he possibly could: but Forester could not hear or understand them, Henry Campbell was the only person who, in this scene of danger and confusion, had sufficient presence of mind to be of service.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth