You know I am your friend, and the friend of your friends; in spite of your taunts, you well and deeply know I may be trusted.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

And for the other Sacraments, of eating the Paschall Lambe, it is manifestly imitated in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; in which the Breaking of the Bread, and the pouring out of the Wine, do keep in memory our deliverance from the Misery of Sin, by Christs Passion, as the eating of the Paschall Lambe, kept in memory the deliverance of the Jewes out of the Bondage of Egypt.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Each dog knew its master and its call.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They also designate sweet dishes and desserts of different kinds, including many articles known to us as confections.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

“Nay, nay; you fancy so because you donna know it, my wench.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

CLER: You will dispatch, knights, it must be done, i'faith.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

kai hoi apo splênos de kakopragountos ikteroi melanteroi kai tôn helkôn hai oulai melainai.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Do not take your finger out of the loop until the entire double knot is made.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

Having concluded her directions Katie invited me into the cabinet with her, and allowed me to remain there to the end.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

My dear Kelvin , "I must see you as quickly as possible, and in private .
— from A Secret of the Sea: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

Dr. King informs me that the majority of the before described gigantic castings, which he found on a fully exposed, bare, gravelly knoll on the Nilgiri Mountains in India, had been more or less weathered by the previous north-east monsoon; and most of them presented a subsided appearance.
— from The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits by Charles Darwin

"Stocks from stock exchanges maybe I don't know it, Mawruss; but stocks from silk foulards I do know it, Mawruss, and don't you forget it."
— from Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Montague Glass

Now, Dr. Klein informs me that the smallest Micrococci, which are distinctly discernible under a power of 800 diameters, are estimated to be from .0002 to .0005 of a millimetre—that is, from 1/50800 to 1/127000 of an inch—in diameter.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

Millet of different kinds is met with in the hottest parts of Africa, in the South of Europe, in Asia Minor, and in the East Indies.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

If you made a favorable impression upon him when you met?” “If I should, I think I 'd go over to South Carolina, and ask some one to buy me as a negro, for I 'd know in my heart it was all I could be fit for.” “Oh, my dear, dear Tom, I wish you would meet him in a different spirit, if only for poor papa's sake.
— from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever