I forgot not to lift up my heart in thankfulness to Heaven; and what heart could forbear to bless Him, who had not only in a miraculous manner provided for me in such a wilderness, and in such a desolate condition, but from whom every deliverance must always be acknowledged to proceed.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

]: Dead. MOS: Another bout, sir, with your eyes.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

In the meanwhile, the agents had caught sight of the drunken man asleep behind the door, and were shaking him:— He awoke, stammering:— “Is it all over, Jondrette?” “Yes,” replied Javert.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Walà man gánì danggása (magdanggas) ang bátà, The child doesn’t even have a fever.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I had closed my shutter, laid a mat to the door to prevent the snow from blowing in under it, trimmed my fire, and after sitting nearly an hour on the hearth listening to the muffled fury of the tempest, I lit a candle, took down “Marmion,” and beginning— “Day set on Norham’s castled steep,
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar’s wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And therefore, guided by precedents, I must inform you that in practice cases of divorce may all be reduced to the following—there’s no physical defect, I may assume, nor desertion?...” Alexey Alexandrovitch bowed his head in assent.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But then my servant, whom I had intended to take down with me, deceived me; and being frighted at the increase of the distemper, and not knowing when I should go, he took other measures, and left me, so I was put off for that time; and, one way or other, I always found that to appoint to go away was always crossed by some accident or other, so as to disappoint and put it off again; and this brings in a story which otherwise might be thought a needless digression, viz., about these disappointments being from Heaven.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Dì mubulag ang babáyi basta brutsáhun (hibrutsáhan), As long as you lick a girl, she’ll never break off from you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: Mr. Hodges.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

The Gold Dust maverick answered by running another fifty yards and then herself settling into the slower stride.
— from The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: Gentlemen —It is almost two years ago that my little girl was taken with a spasm which frightened me so that my menses became suppressed.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.: G.W. Sweeney, Esq.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Look, here’s the warrant, Claudio, for thy death: ’Tis now dead midnight, and by eight to-morrow 60
— from Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

In December Miss Anthony became an office-holder!
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper