At first men had no kings save the gods, and no government save theocracy.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I am guilty and not guilty,” said the prisoner slowly.
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

" She has been pulling off her gloves, and now goes slowly up-stairs.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas

"We'll have to get a new gang," said Job.
— from Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes by Victor Appleton

For their parts also, they assured me of such helps as they could purchase: and thus with hope of good, although no gay success, I went in hand withal, then almost as one leaning altogether unto memory, since my books and I were parted by forty miles in sunder.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison

And when the snows of winter successively gave way to muddy streets and then to clean pavements in the city of Granville, a new gilt sign was lettered across the windows of the brokerage office in which Paul Lorimer was housed.
— from North of Fifty-Three by Bertrand W. Sinclair