On the contrary, there were at least half-a-dozen who were ready to go before Justice Malam, and give in much more striking testimony than any the landlord could furnish.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

I have the word of the gospel in my mouth, Sitio.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

In the house of Mynheer Van Guldensack I made myself so pleasant to high and low, that I came to be quite intimate there: and got the knowledge of a state secret or two, which surprised and pleased my captain very much.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

You talke of Pirithous and Theseus love; Theirs has more ground, is more maturely seasond, More buckled with strong Iudgement and their needes The one of th'other may be said to water [2. Hearses ready with Palamon: and Arcite: the 3. Queenes.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Well then, that on the fort," said the gentleman, "if my memory serves me, goes thus: SONNET "Up from this wasted soil, this shattered shell, Whose walls and towers here in ruin lie, Three thousand soldier souls took wing on high, In the bright mansions of the blest to dwell.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The frog half fearful jumps across the path, And little mouse that leaves its hole at eve Nimbles with timid dread beneath the swath; My rustling steps awhile their joys deceive, Till past,—and then the cricket sings more strong, And grasshoppers in merry moods still wear The short night weary with their fretting song.
— from Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare

This idea, so far as it has gone in my mind, seems very reasonable.
— from A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman