If in my knowledge of THE secret I do what I can to spare an innocent girl (especially, remembering your own reference to her when you told my story to the assembled guests at Chesney Wold) from the taint of my impending shame, I act upon a resolution I have taken.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Por lo general el gaucho es reservado y comedido con las gentes que no conoce: el temor de decir algún disparate que le deje en ridículo, [5] le contiene de hablar ante extraños.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Jorge Hunecus ( Chileno ) Bello, Andrés (1781-1865) Andrés Bello, [11] que aunque nacido en Venezuela vivió y murió en Chile, es uno de esos personajes que honran a todo un continente, [12] y que se granjea el respeto y las simpatías de cuantos le tratan, y aún de aquéllos que solamente le conocen por sus escritos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"Yes, yes, I got 'em," replied Yeager, starting from thought and eying Jim uneasily.
— from With Sully into the Sioux Land by Joseph Mills Hanson

Such circumstances are extremely liable to cause friction and bad blood, and St. Vincent, who with all his despotism was keenly alive to the just susceptibilities of meritorious officers, was very careful to explain to them that he had with the great est reluctance yielded to the necessity of combining the preparations for defence under a single flag-officer, who should have no other care.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

"I ask that Pierre Lenoir shall be summoned to give evidence," repeated young Jack, who had been told by Delamarre what line of defence to adopt.
— from Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng

Although his style is generally exuberantly rich, yet it is seldom offensively redundant, for every word is usually telling; and at times he is epigrammatically terse.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

Do you intend to wait until Gerard Granville explicitly requests you to release him from his engagement?”
— from Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Just now he is keenly watching the left of his line, and by a trick he has of hitching forward in his saddle when things don't go exactly right, you see that something's coming.
— from Campaigning with Crook, and Stories of Army Life by Charles King

In a case of manslaughter the witness giving evidence remarked: You see he pecked he with a peck, and he pecked he with a peck, and if he’d pecked he with his peck as hard as he pecked he with his peck, he would have killed he, and not he he.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright

The following experiments, given by a contributor to the Paper Trade Review some years ago, are interesting as showing the effect of varying proportions of caustic soda used per unit of grass:— Experiments re Yield of Air-dry Bleached Pulp from Oran Esparto.
— from The Manufacture of Paper With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making by R. W. (Robert Walter) Sindall