“Well, old boy,” he said, “you find your religion don’t work, it seems!
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Open now the gates of Helicon, goddesses, and stir the song of the kings that rose for war, the array that followed each and filled the plains, the men that even then blossomed, the arms that blazed in Italy the bountiful land: for you remember, divine ones, and you can recall; to us but a breath of rumour, scant and slight, is wafted down.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

“We have other plans for you, Ruth, dear, your father and I—oh, no, no; no man picked out for you, or anything like that.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

By Page 24 {24} coronet, supporters, and helmet can be indicated one's place in the scale of precedence; by adding arms for your wife you assert that she also is of gentle rank; your quarterings show the other gentle families you represent; difference marks will show your position in your own family (not a very important matter); augmentations indicate the deeds of your ancestors which the Sovereign thought worthy of being held in especial remembrance.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

‘I left a note for you,’ resumed Dowler.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Completan las reparticiones indispensables, vastos talleres mecánicos, herrería, carpintería, etc., para la fabricación y reparación de herramientas
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“Say, Dave, ain’t me and you done purty fair so fur?” “Yes,” replied David, smiling, “we have.
— from Lost Farm Camp by Henry Herbert Knibbs

For your reasons depend on the very witness under dispute.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

If you do not approve of this scheme, I should think it very likely that Mr. Waterhouse would think it worth his while to set a series for you, retaining duplicates for himself; but I say this only on a venture.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

We have prayed for yore reform day and night, but the Lord seems to have turned a deef ear to our petitions.
— from Westerfelt by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

[327] For the geological and mineralogical character of Greece, see the survey undertaken by Dr. Fiedler, by orders of the present government of Greece, in 1834 and the following years (Reise durch alle Theile des Königreichs Griechenland in Auftrag der K. G. Regierung in den Jahren 1834 bis 1837, especially vol.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

Furthermore, your responsibilities doubled.
— from Project Cyclops by Thomas Hoover

Then, indeed, as if further disguise was useless, an Indian lad, of some fifteen years, rose deliberately to his feet, and stood before them in the sullen dignity of a captured warrior.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

It is high time, therefore, that we act on His own words: ‘When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.’
— from Rome, Turkey, and Jerusalem by Edward Hoare