Du silence!" cried M. Paul.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

c. 14, 14, p. 151, 152,) the suspension of all care and labor, the periodical release of lands, debts, servitude, &c., may seem a noble idea, but the execution would be impracticable in a profane republic; and I should be glad to learn that this ruinous festival was observed by the Jewish people.
— 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

Titus Pomponius Atticus, that noble citizen of Rome, was so fair conditioned, of so sweet a carriage, that he was generally beloved of all good men, of Caesar, Pompey, Antony, Tully, of divers sects, &c. multas haereditates ( [4551] Cornelius Nepos writes) sola bonitate consequutus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

When she saw me coming in at the door, she called me back and said did I live here.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Patricia, from her hiding place behind the door screen, could make out nothing but the dim oblong of the transom above her head and the long pale mass of the skylight.
— from Miss Pat at School by Pemberton Ginther

“Are the dons so convivial, Major?” said I, as a hearty burst of laughter broke forth at the moment.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

In “Downing Street” Carlyle makes an assault on the executive department of the English government.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6, June 1850 by Various

In Ulster, by stratagem, surprise, or force, the forts of Charlemont and Mountjoy, and the town of Dungannon, were seized on the night of the 22nd by Sir Phelim O'Neil or his lieutenants; on the next day Sir Conor Magennis took the town of Newry, the McMahons possessed themselves of Carrickmacross and Castleblaney, the O'Hanlons Tandragee, while Philip O'Reilly and Roger Maguire razed Cavan and Fermanagh.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

An age of poverty; from which ling'ring penance Of such misery doth she cut me off.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Joy at the long wished-for arrival of our countrymen and deliverers soon called me away.
— from Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, and Subsequent to, the Sanguinary Series of Engagements Between the Allied Armies of the French, from the 14th to the 19th October, 1813 by Frederic Shoberl