( b ) Othello, after being convinced of her guilt, after resolving to kill her, and after ordering Iago to kill Cassio within three days, has allowed at least a week to elapse without even questioning her about the handkerchief, and has so behaved during all this time that she is totally unconscious of any change in his feelings.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The Templar affirmed, that the poor fellow was non compos; and exhorted the justice to discharge him as a lunatic.—‘You know very well (added he) that the robbery in question was not committed by the prisoner.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The average boy ought to have and usually does have an appetite like an ostrich.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

All my demurs but double his attacks; At last he whispers, “Do; and we go snacks.”
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

When he saw a young man going with some satraps to supper, he dragged him away and led him off to his relations, and bade them take care of him.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

We found a dirty handkerchief, and a love-letter from some scullery-maid.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He recognises the double descent and twofold parentage, and the later wanderings that had deceived him among ancient lands.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Scarcely do Helenor alone and Lycus struggle out; Helenor in his early prime, whom a slave woman of Licymnos bore in secret to the Maeonian king, and sent to Troy in forbidden weapons, lightly armed with sheathless sword and white unemblazoned shield.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

All my demurs but double his Attacks; At last he whispers, "Do; and we go snacks."
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Drew defended himself, albeit a little sheepishly.
— from Doubloons—and the Girl by John Maxwell Forbes

As he dashed off the young fellow rushed up in time to seize the victim, who staggered helplessly, trampling among the burning embers, among which he would have fallen but for the willing hands which dragged him aside, and lowered him down, before their owner began to kick about and scatter the fire, which hissed and smoked and steamed, as snow was heaped over, and raised a veil to hide the pair from their enemies while the bright light was dying out.
— from To Win or to Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze by George Manville Fenn

But Washburn came to the door himself, an anxious look on his face.
— from Westerfelt by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

We have accordingly determined," he added, addressing Lichtenstein, "to administer a new oath of fidelity, making the people swear allegiance to us, under a fresh contract and different laws.
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff

It's only a little matter of four or five hundred pounds, sir,' said Susy, dropping him an awkward little curtsy, which he thought most charming.
— from A Woman Intervenes by Robert Barr

“Thank you, mother,” said Maud again, and made a little involuntary movement towards the door, whereupon Mrs Rendell dismissed her, after a lingering embrace.
— from A Houseful of Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

But all the skill he had shown in the morning seemed to have deserted him; and at last he gave the rod to Duncan, and, sitting down on a top-coat flung on the wet heather, indolently watched the gillie's operations.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

They have to provide him with bread, homes, roads, ships, railways, parks, music, schools, doctors, hospitals, and a large variety of other comforts and amusements.
— from The Measure of a Man by Amelia E. Barr

After a hundred times returning to kiss her dear, dear hand, and at last sealing the contract on her lips, Mr Vanslyperken departed, full of wine and hope—two very good things to lay in a stock of.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

I was wrong: we country people perform our bird-catching like artists; Auguste did his as a lord of the manor.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 by Alexandre Dumas