Do you––do your friends ever come here to see you?”
— from The Phantom Lover by Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred) Ayres

From his youth on he suffered from frequent visions, which, for example, caused him to see before Duncan's murder an imaginary dagger.
— from Sleep Walking and Moon Walking: A Medico-Literary Study by J. Sadger

What fool ever called hers the softest sex?"
— from Faithful Margaret: A Novel by Simpson, J. M., Mrs.

So far as we know, there is nothing in his utterances or writings to indicate that the birth of William Franklin ever caused him the slightest shame or embarrassment.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

In a young specimen of C. balænaris , having the orifice of the shell 2/10ths of an inch in diameter, I found the upper part of each compartment only slightly sinuous, not more so than is common in many varieties of Balanus , but more symmetrical, for each compartment had three slight furrows, making, for the whole shell, eighteen furrows.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

The sultan of Cairo promised a golden byzant for every Christian head that should be brought into his camp; sometimes the Arabs and Carismians surprised the Crusaders who wandered from the army, and often took advantage of the darkness of night to get access to the camp; sentinels asleep on their posts, knights in bed in their tents, were struck by invisible hands, and when day appeared to [392] lighten the scene of carnage, the barbarians fled along the banks of the Nile, to demand their wages of the sultan of Egypt.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud