"Yes," said Phares, "priest Hanna Stambodi, at Ain Warka, told me yesterday, that none of us had any religion, except Mansoor."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Beside the driver there sat a man who could not have been more than thirty years of age, but whose massive head and resolute expression marked him as a leader.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

He drove the earls Svein and Hakon away from their heritages; and was even most tyrannical towards his own connections, as he drove all the kings out of the Uplands: although, indeed, it was but just reward for having been false to their oaths of fealty to King Canute, and having followed this King Olaf in all the folly he could invent; so their friendship ended according to their deserts, by this king mutilating some of them, taking their kingdoms himself, and ruining every man in the country who had an honourable name.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

In these fruitless suggestions time stole away unperceived, and I had already remained eight months in the station of a footman, when an accident happened that put an end to my servitude, and, for the present, banished all hopes of succeeding in my love.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“But it’s so ridiculous to have a redheaded Elaine,” mourned Anne.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“I stand aside, messieurs, by my heap of stones, to see the soldiers and their prisoner pass (for it is a solitary road, that, where any spectacle is well worth looking at), and at first, as they approach, I see no more than that they are six soldiers with a tall man bound, and that they are almost black to my sight—except on the side of the sun going to bed, where they have a red edge, messieurs.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

I shook my head, and replied, "Excuse me, sir; I cannot sign that."
— from The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man, and The Cold Heart by Adelbert von Chamisso

“And to have a ride every morning on my darling pony?”
— from Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade

SOCRATES: The state or the soul, therefore, which wishes to have a right existence must hold firmly to this knowledge, just as the sick man clings to the physician, or the passenger depends for safety on the pilot.
— from Alcibiades II by Plato (spurious and doubtful works)

Paul, Harry, and Reginald escorted Mary, Lizzie and Gertrude, while Miss Saville, Janet, and Adela remained at home.
— from The Young Berringtons: The Boy Explorers by William Henry Giles Kingston

This last word has a rather equivocal meaning—but we scorn to blot, otherwise we should say to be sold.
— from The Comic Latin Grammar: A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Percival Leigh

It was understood that Mrs. Tetchy intended to have a grand wedding for her daughter, by way, as my sister said, of showing her new son that her daughter was somebody, a fact of which Jane thought he would have a realizing experience much sooner than he expected.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

First, though he took from us an estate from which he annually received eighty minas, and although he enjoyed the profits of it for ten years, yet he is neither in possession of the money nor will declare in what manner he has employed it.
— from How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking by Edwin Gordon Lawrence