I had them ready at my disposal before she whispered softly, “He swore he would never leave me, when we stood there alone!
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

It was the luckiest chance in the world that sent him to Rugby and made him my chum.”
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

And these were women with a theory, who held that reticence about money matters is absurd, and that life would be truer if each would state the exact size of the golden island upon which he stands, the exact stretch of warp over which he throws the woof that is not money.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

He that ruleth among men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He inclined his head to Richard and me and spoke to my guardian.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

He heard the rustle and murmur of the people round him, and then the voice of McGinty sounded dull and distant through the covering of his ears.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

He then repeated a magic formula that he had learned, and snapped his fingers.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

They furnished it—that is, after they had chewed the piece, and rung it on the counter, and tried acid on it, and asked me where I got it, and who I was, and where I was from, and where I was going to, and when I expected to get there, and perhaps a couple of hundred more questions; and when they got aground, I went right on and furnished them a lot of information voluntarily; told them I owned a dog, and his name was Watch, and my first wife was a Free Will Baptist, and her grandfather was a Prohibitionist, and I used to know a man who had two thumbs on each hand and a wart on the inside of his upper lip, and died in the hope of a glorious resurrection, and so on, and so on, and so on, till even that hungry village questioner began to look satisfied, and also a shade put out; but he had to respect a man of my financial strength, and so he didn’t give me any lip, but I noticed he took it out of his underlings, which was a perfectly natural thing to do.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

"I, too, have heard the Rime, and many women who now sit decently spinning in Kilmaclavers have heard it.
— from The Watcher by the Threshold by John Buchan

Bud, he allowed he was the best runner in Kentucky, and he wouldn't 'a' had any trouble, even if he did have to run acrost mountains and hurdle rocks, to make the twelve miles in an hour, but there was a lot of cricks and rivers in that country and there had been a gosh-a-mighty big rain the night before and all them cricks had turned into rivers and all them rivers had turned into roarin' oceans and Niagara catarac's.
— from The Revolt of the Oyster by Don Marquis

It is nothing but a sham, an empty pretence and hypocrisy, to receive a man into the pulpit, and recognize him before the people, to whom you would not give the right hand of fellowship.
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Several forest-paths and new clearings offered fine collecting grounds, and I captured some new and interesting insects; but as it was getting late I had to reserve a more thorough exploration for future occasions.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

I hope they do, I hope Holster gets it in the neck—he don't know how to run a mill anyway.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

He therefore rose and made a long speech in opposition to the petition of the matrons.
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

In the Book of Proverbs [241:A] we find: "He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends"—loss of faith implying loss of friend.
— from Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

One of our company, who boasted of his cruel exploits in Missouri, went up to the fort and under the guise of friendship procured a book of Doctrine and Covenants from a Sister Higbee, to read and make sport of.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

how they rushed about me!
— from When We Were Strolling Players in the East by Louise Jordan Miln