And, as they came on, the galley looked to be some flying creature, with such spirit did the rowers spin it along;—or rather, with the rustle of its flags, and the roar of its nacaires and drums and Saracen horns, you might have taken it for a rushing bolt of heaven.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Now king Solomon, as soon as this epistle of the king of Tyre was brought him, commended the readiness and good-will he declared therein, and repaid him in what he desired, and sent him yearly twenty thousand cori of wheat, and as many baths of oil: now the bath is able to contain seventy-two sextaries.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Whereupon the king was in suspense with himself: but Zedekiah, one of those false prophets, came near, and exhorted him not to hearken to Micaiah, for he did not at all speak truth; as a demonstration of which he instanced in what Elijah had said, who was a better prophet in foretelling futurities than Micaiah 42 for he foretold that the dogs should lick his blood in the city of Jezreel, in the field of Naboth, as they licked the blood of Naboth, who by his means was there stoned to death by the multitude; that therefore it was plain that this Micaiah was a liar, as contradicting a greater prophet than himself, and saying that he should be slain at three days' journey distance: "and [said he] you shall soon know whether he be a true prophet, and hath the power of the Divine Spirit; for I will smite him, and let him then hurt my hand, as Jadon caused the hand of Jeroboam the king to wither when he would have caught him; for I suppose thou hast certainly heard of that accident."
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Mindful of which, and also that his repetition in America was that of headlong foolhardiness rather, and want of brain not of heart, Charles Lameth does, on the eleventh day of November, with little emotion, decline attending some hot young Gentleman from Artois, come expressly to challenge him: nay indeed he first coldly engages to attend; then coldly permits two Friends to attend instead of him, and shame the young Gentleman out of it, which they successfully do.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

When the doctor had finished, the president gazed into the space between the prosecutor and the counsel for the defence and suggested: “Have you any questions to ask?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"My dearest Amelia," said he, "you are too good—too kind.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

But wait ye make not many questions with her nor her men, but say ye are diseased, and so hie you to bed, and rise not on the morn till I come to you, for the castle of Tintagil is but ten miles hence; so this was done as they devised.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

O! This seven lang years I hae lien by his side, An' he is but a fusionless carlie, O. O haud your tongue, my feirrie auld wife, O haud your tongue, now Nansie, O: I've seen the day, and sae hae ye, Ye wad na ben sae donsie, O. I've seen the day ye butter'd my brose, And cuddl'd me late and early, O; But downa-do's come o'er me now,
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

She says she knows now you didn’t mean to set Diana drunk, and she hopes you’ll forgive her and be good friends with Diana again.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Grateful at our promise of another doctor, a specialist, he yet seemed with his eyes to say that he knew that such were only embroideries of Fate.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

She has been divorced and so have you.”
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

Now what you think of dat ar? See how you look now!
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

After her marriage they seemed to fall apart as people often do, and she heard you were all dead.
— from A Modern Cinderella by Amanda M. Douglas

Your wages in the last fifty years have been doubled, and so have your comforts.
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

[This itinerary is difficult, as Sir Henry Yule says.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

"Were you or were you not, sir? Look at that document, and say have you any doubt upon the subject?"
— from The Art of Cross-Examination With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses in Some Celebrated Cases by Francis L. (Francis Lewis) Wellman