I suppose it is up to us to give it a name?" There were several suggestions, more or less happy, but Challenger's was final.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

This was his system with his tenants: he allowed them to get into arrears, neglect their fences, reduce their stock, sell their straw, and otherwise go the wrong
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Thall it be Therry? Give it a name, Thquire!’ said Mr. Sleary, with hospitable ease.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

In a special audience the King had gone into the matter with the greatest interest, and noticed the minutest detail, so that Marx felt justified in entertaining the strongest possible hopes of success.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

One that slides into a house in the dark of the evening, and hides himself, in order to let some of the gang in at night to rob it.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

ind the square root of the number of the people, I should answer that I am here taking this number only as an instance; that the relations of which I am speaking are not measured by the number of men alone, but generally by the amount of action, which is a combination of a multitude of causes; and that, further, if, to save words, I borrow for a moment the terms of geometry, I am none the less well aware that moral quantities do not allow of geometrical accuracy.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Did you go in at night then?”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"What was that man?" asked my guardian in a new tone of interest.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Thank God, I am not to be cuffed into belief.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Better still if you were to persuade her for the public benefit to go into a nunnery; that would make it possible for you to become a monk, too, and join the expedition as a priest.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

How glad I am now that I can read;
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

Thus the affair stood till near the close of Mr. Van Buren's administration, when an event took place which gave it a new turn, and brought on a most serious question between the United States and Great Britain, and changed the relative positions of the two countries—the United States to become the injured party, claiming redress.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

‘Nay, Gotthold, I am not to be put by,’ said Otto.
— from Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson

The form of the signal, and also the period of giving it, are not the same in all countries, and the verdant traveler will do well to watch the motions of his neighbors, and be governed accordingly.
— from How to Travel Hints, Advice, and Suggestions to Travelers by Land and Sea all over the Globe. by Thomas Wallace Knox

‘If I had to give a V.C. for this affair, it would be to that fine girl I’d give it, and not to you, Cecil.’ ‘So should I. There is no question whatever as to our respective shares in the achievement.’
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

However, the Portuguese and Catalonian unbound me, and the notary perceiving there was nobody to stand by him, said, “I vow to God I am not to be so served, and were not you, gentlemen, persons of such worth, it might cost you dear; however, bid these witnesses be contented, and take notice, that I serve you generously without any prospect of interest.”
— from Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo

Five minutes before he might have given it another name there is no use in saying that the recital of Honora's biography had not made a difference with Mr. Howard Pence, and that he was not a little mortified at his mistake.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

In those females in which it is found, the locomotive system is well developed in the length and elegance of the limbs; the vital or nutritive system everywhere presents soft forms, and rounds both body and limbs; and the mental or thinking system displays a capability of grace in action, notwithstanding the constrained attitude assumed to conceal the face.
— from Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker