"Again you find us, Miss Summerson," said he, "using our little arts to polish, polish!
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In some indefinable way the black face thus flashed upon me shocked me profoundly.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

‘This is pretty,’ said Ralph, folding up Miss Squeers’s note; ‘very pretty.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

cried d’Artagnan; “for heaven’s sake, don’t laugh, for upon my soul, it’s no laughing matter!”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolved Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once, Powerful persuaders, quickened at the scent Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

At night writing in my study a mouse ran over my table, which I shut up fast under my shelf’s upon my table till to-morrow, and so home and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It was materially assisted though, I have no doubt, by a heavy gale of wind, which came slowly up at sunset, when we were about ten days out, and raged with gradually increasing fury until morning, saving that it lulled for an hour a little before midnight.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

The siege of Groningen proceeded, and Parma ordered some forces under Martin Schenck to advance to its relief.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

Would to God you had never taken me up, since it was only to throw me down!" Bathsheba, in spite of her mettle, began to feel un- mistakable signs that she was inherently the weaker vessel.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

"Shall I tell Sir Charles Carew where I first used my sword with good effect?"
— from Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Mary Johnston

'No one of them hath laid so much as a finger upon me!' said Marjorie.
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

[32] The battle was fought May 1, 1745, between the French, under Marshal Saxe, and the allies, under William Duke of Cumberland.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

"This is no place for us, master," said Erling pretty loudly; "it is as well that we go while we may.
— from A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

Mr father urged me sair,
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron