"A very great disrespect!" exclaimed Captain Langford, an English officer who had recently brought despatches to Governor Shute.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

" "Dodo!" exclaimed Celia, looking after her in surprise.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

De Cuzco el ferrocarril nos lleva hasta Puno, sobre el lago Titicaca, a 12,500 pies de elevación; cruzamos las aguas del lago en un vapor moderno, de mil toneladas, que nos lleva a Guaqui, en la costa boliviana; y de allí llegamos fácilmente en tren o diligencia a La Paz, teniendo a la vista el Illimani.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The records of their reigns are the records of drunkenness, extortion, cruelty, lust, and violence—the common history of all barbarous kings.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

Shewing the best way to Dress Eels, Conger, Lump, and Soals.
— from The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by Robert May

She sat with downcast eyes, constrainedly listening and sometimes replying.
— from Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

She felt how Giovanni every day evidently cared less and less for her society, and how, on the other hand, Del Ferice was quietly assuring his position, so that people already began to whisper that he had a chance of becoming her husband.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

but it was a dandy sight, a dazzle of double eagles cascading like a river, and so swift that you couldn't pretend to count them!
— from Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne

Hundreds of them had been mown down ere Captain Langlade and his eight remaining gunners would shift their hot pieces to a safer place behind.
— from The Battle of the Marne by G. H. (George Herbert) Perris

Mortified, as it would appear, by the ill success of his dramatic efforts, Cervantes laid aside his pen for a considerable period.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek