" "Let's go and see the elephant," replied Mr. Fogg.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

“In order to go and see the Esmeralda,” replied Jupiter piteously.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Mrs. Hood was in her usual nervous hurry, giving a survey to each room before departure, uttering a hasty word or two, then away with constricted features.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

I really must go and see the engines reciprocate.
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett

He pressed his hands together, and rubbing them, squeezing thereby his finger-rings and shaking his golden armlets, scolded that excellent Ri shi, uttering many invectives: 'Ha, he exclaimed, 30.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

The philosophers once thought that the sun went round the earth, and framed laws on that assumption; but that did not make it a fact; the sun did not go out of his way to verify the theory, but kept to the law of God, and swung the earth round him once a year, say the philosophers what they might say, leaving them to learn the fact and thereby correct their theory.
— from Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker

The Germans ruled over the Italians, now they rule over Hungarians and Slavs; the Turks have ruled over Greeks and Slavs; the English rule over Hindoos; the Mongolians rule over the Chinese.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Papa says he has made a careful reckoning, and finds that if we give a soldo to each ragged beggar in the street, and half a lira to each well-dressed beggar who comes up, we shall be ourselves reduced to beggary in six months.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

"Let's go and see the elephant," replied Mr. Fogg.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days. Junior Deluxe Edition by Jules Verne

The decks had none of that creamy purity which Cowes expects, but were rough and grey, and showed tarry exhalations round the seams and rusty stains near the bows.
— from The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

"The giving a Society the exclusive right to build a bridge, unless the plan is prepared before hand, will prevent a bridge being built; because those who might afterwards produce models preferable to their own, will not present them to any such body of men, and they can have no right to take other peoples labours or inventions to compleat their own undertakings by.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway