Then turning to Zoraida, while I and another of the Christians held him fast by both arms, lest he should do some mad act, he said to her, “Infamous girl, misguided maiden, whither in thy blindness and madness art thou going in the hands of these dogs, our natural enemies?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This question was necessarily to be decided by a general rule; and it is this rule which establishes the distinction between res mancipi and nec mancipi, a distinction about which the opinions of modern civilians differ so much that there are above ten conflicting systems on the subject.
— 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

"I didn't tell you, dear," said Maggie, making a great effort to command herself, "because you've been so busy.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

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— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

‘—that I did,’ said Mr. Wickfield, glancing helplessly and distractedly at his partner, ‘that I did doubt her, and think her wanting in her duty to you; and that I did sometimes, if I must say all, feel averse to Agnes being in such a familiar relation towards her, as to see what I saw, or in my diseased theory fancied that I saw.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

However, I should not have done it unless it had been for the fumes of the champagne and the Somard, with which we had washed down the delicious supper mine host had supplied us with.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Un testigo A witness in the end de su miedo, y un amigo, to his cowardice, and a friend, Comendador, para vos.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

With consummate art she gave the appearance of being under Mrs. Postlethwaite’s complete thrall, and watched with fascinated eyes every movement of the one unstricken finger which could do so much.
— from The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katharine Green

Those who remained upright plied with both hands with all their force, giving it me with hammers, cudgels, and the anvil; but inasmuch as God does sometimes mercifully intervene, he so ordered that neither they nor I did any harm to one another."
— from The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

And the woman at the door said, "My friends, [Pg 42] I have no roof to my head; will you take me in?
— from Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Hewlett

"Very good; what do you suppose would happen to the man whose imagination devised some means of bringing the two lovers together?" "Oh!
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

"You have not done so, my dear.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

It confers no power to do that which is inherently wrong, under any pretence whatever; or would anything have been gained, had America, as soon as she relieved herself from a sway that diverted so many of her energies to the increase of the wealth and influence of a distant people, gone to work to frame a new polity which should inflict similar wrongs within her own bosom.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

“Oh, Jack, whatever shall we do?” said Molly, almost crying.
— from Knock Three Times! by Marion St. John Webb