“What shall I do, Mr. Covey,” said Bill.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

" "Oh, yes you do, McMurdo," cried Sherlock Holmes, genially.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Right outside the viceregal lodge, imagine! —They’re only in the hook and eye department, Myles Crawford said.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The word upa-ni-shad (literally “sitting down beside”) having first doubtless meant “confidential session,” came to signify “secret or esoteric doctrine,” because these works were taught to select pupils (probably towards the end of their apprenticeship) in lectures from which the wider circle was excluded.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

“Meanwhile, the president carelessly opened the letter which had been brought to him; but the first lines aroused his attention; he read them again and again, and fixing his eyes on M. de Morcerf, ‘Count,’ said he, ‘you have said that the Vizier of Yanina confided his wife and daughter to your care?’—‘Yes, sir,’ replied Morcerf; ‘but in that, like all the rest, misfortune pursued me.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Aruns, in Virgil, in his address to Apollo, takes notice of this custom: [570] Summe Deûm, magni custos Soractis, Apollo, Quem primi colimus; cui pineus ardor acervo Pascitur, et medium freti pietate per ignem Cultores multâ premimus vestigia prunâ; Da, Pater.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Dickens' marvelous characters seem more real to us than any we have ever met.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Three of the enemy, one after another, did my captain slay with his own hand; and then came a single combat the like of which few have seen.
— from The French Prisoners of Norman Cross: A Tale by Brown, Arthur, Rev.

Why does Mr. Churchill say it has?
— from Peace Theories and the Balkan War by Norman Angell

Did Melanchthon contemplate some crime which he was too timid to perpetrate?
— from Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau

“Sit down, Mr Chester,” said the skipper, when I made my appearance.
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

“But, for pity’s sake, explain yourself, dear madam!” cried Sir Francis.
— from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne

"Two inches apart, pointed end up, all the way along those little trenches," directed Mrs. Crane, seating herself in the wheelbarrow.
— from The Adopting of Rosa Marie (A Sequel to Dandelion Cottage) by Carroll Watson Rankin