“He is dead!” exclaimed the officer.
— from Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Edmondo De Amicis

He is doing exactly the opposite of what the scholar is aiming at.
— from The Photoplay: A Psychological Study by Hugo Münsterberg

As soon as his eye fell on the pale, agitated countenance of the stranger, and from her to his idolized daughter, every trace of color left both cheeks and lips, and unable to support himself, he sunk into a chair, covering his face with his hands.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, July 1849 by Various

" If he is dead!" exclaimed the other sharply.
— from A Little Boy Lost by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Poor fellows, there was no doubt of their being out of sorts, as they tramped along, half hidden in dust, even the officers, who rode before them, with ragged plumes and slouched hats.
— from Under the Storm by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

For when there is excess of seminal humor in the body, or when the humor is disintegrated either through overheating of the body or some other disturbance, the sleeper dreams things that are connected with the discharge of this excessive or disintegrated humor: the same thing happens when nature is cumbered with other superfluities, so that phantasms relating to the discharge of those superfluities are formed in the imagination.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

"But he is dependant," exclaimed the old hag: "for you yourself once said to me, ' We are dependant upon one who cannot afford to maintain us in idleness .'
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds