“This treasure belongs to you, my dear friend,” replied Dantès, “and to you only.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Gregory the Seventh, who may be adored or detested as the founder of the papal monarchy, was driven from Rome, and died in exile at Salerno.
— 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

The instant Sancho saw him fall he slid down from the cork tree, and made all haste to where his master was, who, dismounting from Rocinante, went and stood over him of the Mirrors, and unlacing his helmet to see if he was dead, and to give him air if he should happen to be alive, he saw—who can say what he saw, without filling all who hear it with astonishment, wonder, and awe?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“My dear father, reassure yourself.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Thanks, good Pilgrim, for your information concerning the companion of my childhood.—Maidens,” she said, “draw near—offer the sleeping cup to this holy man, whom I will no longer detain from repose.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

He found himself jostled among a crowd of people, chiefly women, who were huddled together in a dirty frowsy room, at the upper end of which was a raised platform railed off from the rest, with a dock for the prisoners on the left hand against the wall, a box for the witnesses in the middle, and a desk for the magistrates on the right; the awful locality last named, being screened off by a partition which concealed the bench from the common gaze, and left the vulgar to imagine (if they could) the full majesty of justice.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

“Gentlemen!” exclaimed Don Filipo, repressing a smile, “I haven’t yet made known the plan which we, the younger men , bring here.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

By an easy navigation he might draw from Russia the native commodities of furs, wax, and hydromel:
— 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

The sky had that clear pale blue of dawn, when day first realizes that, though born of night, it is no longer night.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

And to the elements surrender it As if it were a spirit!—How divine, The liberty, for frail, for mortal, man 515 To roam at large among unpeopled glens And mountainous retirements, only trod By devious footsteps; regions consecrate To oldest time!
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

Don Ferdinand, raging, protested.
— from The Radio Boys with the Border Patrol by Gerald Breckenridge

We may not find a clear statement of this mystic revelation in the discursive “Conversations;” rather we should look for it in his poems of this period, and here, though we find nothing whatever to correspond to a system of divine order, we do find, recurring in various forms, a recognition of an all-embracing, all-penetrating power which through the poet transmutes nature into something finer and more eternal, and gives him a vantage ground from which to perceive more truly the realities of life.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

Off I started directly for R——. I said the same at the post-office there as I had said at B——; and again I waited three days before anybody came.
— from Curiosities of Civilization by Andrew Wynter

Then Mr. 'Possum said something must have happened to Mr. Crow's machinery and he was coming down for repairs.
— from Mr. Rabbit's Wedding Hollow Tree Stories by Albert Bigelow Paine

"Added to these virile characteristics are often the worst qualities of women; namely, an excessive desire for revenge, cunning cruelty, love of dress and untruthfulness, forming a combination of evil tendencies which often results in a type of extraordinary wickedness.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

Their own kiss the Chinese regard as exclusively voluptuous; it is only befitting as between lovers, and not only do fathers refrain from kissing their children except when very young, but even the mothers only give their children a rare and furtive kiss.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

After a [Pg 232] while Don Filipe resolved to despatch a few of the weeds on his own account to Europe, and he consigned them to a friend at Barranquilla.
— from The Woodlands Orchids, Described and Illustrated With Stories of Orchid-Collecting by Frederick Boyle