That shall little need, said Sir Kay, to do such cost upon him; for I dare undertake he is a villain born, and never will make man, for an he had come of gentlemen he would have asked of you horse and armour, but such as he is, so he asketh.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

"Let Meess" (meaning me) "take her," said Madame; "et qu'on aille tout de suite chercher un fiacre."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

By his mouth likewise thou didst point out this imperative reason why philosophers should enter public life, to wit, lest, if the reins of government be left to unprincipled and profligate citizens, trouble and destruction should come upon the good.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

There was a garret above, pierced with a scuttle over his head; and down through this scuttle came a cat, suspended around the haunches by a string; she had a rag tied about her head and jaws to keep her from mewing; as she slowly descended she curved upward and clawed at the string, she swung downward and clawed at the intangible air.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

I assure you, sir, I am no relation of Mr Allworthy; and if the world, who are incapable of setting a true value on his virtue, should think, in his behaviour to me, he hath dealt hardly by a relation, they do an injustice to the best of men: for I—but I ask your pardon, I shall trouble you with no particulars relating to myself; only as you seemed to think me a relation of Mr Allworthy, I thought proper to set you right in a matter that might draw some censures upon him, which I promise you I would rather lose my life than give occasion to.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The older "autocratic" method merely decreed social changes upon the authority of the monarch or the ruling class.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Mikyungkung (nakyungkung) ang núkus sa ínit nga bága, The dried squid curled up in the glowing embers.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Just before dinner she came up to see him.
— from Black is White by George Barr McCutcheon

It was not merely that he had little to do and little to think about apart from his memories, that he dwelt so constantly upon them.
— from Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray

Et l’un de ces galapiats qui a peut-être servi chez des saltimbanques, chipe un clairon et souffle dedans un air de foire.—
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

For many days Nan seemed a match for all the wiles de Spain could use to catch sight of her.
— from Nan of Music Mountain by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

A few daring spirits came up, and nodded their heads wisely.
— from The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Rudyard Kipling

Meantime Jael Dence sat crouched upon her father's grave, stupefied with grief.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

She proposed that the dukes should come up secretly with their army, that they should procure, by force or by persuasion, a goodly number of boats, and go down the river into Bordeaux, shouting: "Vive Condé!
— from The War of Women, Volume 2 by Alexandre Dumas