Bring me to hear them speak, where I may be conceal'd.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Almost at the same period, the bishop of Carthage, from a society less opulent than that of Rome, collected a hundred thousand sesterces, (above eight hundred and fifty pounds sterling,) on a sudden call of charity to redeem the brethren of Numidia, who had been carried away captives by the barbarians of the desert.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Cyrus Harding and the reporter, being at too great a distance, had not been able to hear the shouts.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces, he Whose image thou art; him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called Mother of human race."
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Up, and by water to White Hall, and there with the Office attended the Duke of York, and staid in White Hall till about noon, and so with W. Hewer to the Cocke, and there he and I dined alone with great content, he reading to me, for my memory’s sake, my late collections of the history of the Navy, that I might represent the same by and by to the Duke of York; and so, after dinner, he and I to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York’s lodgings, whither he, by and by, by his appointment come: and alone with him an hour in his closet, telling him mine and W. Coventry’s advice touching the present posture of the Navy, as the Duke of Buckingham and the rest do now labour to make changes therein; and that it were best for him to suffer the King to be satisfied with the bringing in of a man or two which they desire.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The duchess said haughtily that she had done her best for the Esmonds.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

The yield, in that census year, was 2,297,000 pounds, of which 2,112,650 pounds were credited to Hawaii, the small remainder coming from Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Molokai.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

His visitor waited a moment for him to speak, watching him as he moved about.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Admire her tires: like her in all fashions; compare her in every habit to some deity; invent excellent dreams to flatter her, and riddles; or, if she be a great one, perform always the second parts to her: like what she likes, praise whom she praises, and fail not to make the household and servants yours, yea the whole family, and salute them by their names: ('tis but light cost if you can purchase them so,) and make her physician your pensioner, and her chief woman.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Harriet pointed to a heap of music; told him to select three or four songs, and sent Miss Markham to play for him: while she threw herself on a sofa near, and summoned Margaret to sit by her.
— from Margaret Capel: A Novel, vol. 3 of 3 by Ellen Wallace

Through Halstead’s mind, however, the same suspicion of the young man was running.
— from The Motor Boat Club in Florida; or, Laying the Ghost of Alligator Swamp by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Mrs Charlton, our chaise is coming; you will be ready, I hope, to set off in it directly?”
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

I guess what made him mad was my sayin' he orter hev a doctor, 'cause doctors cost money an' Gran'dad's so poor he hates t' spend money unnecessary."
— from Mary Louise in the Country by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

For although the last seventeen years, during which I have been constantly occupied with this subject, have, it is true, brought me many corroborations as to other parts, such as Ethics, Æsthetics, Dianoiology; still these, by their very nature, pass at once from the sphere of actuality, whence they arise, to that of philosophy itself: so they cannot claim to be extraneous evidence, nor can they, as collected by me, have the same irrefragable, unequivocal cogency as those concerning Metaphysics proper which are given by its correlate Physics (in the wide sense of the word which the Ancients gave it).
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Hm ... a hundred and fifty to three hundred thousand, say.
— from Rope by Holworthy Hall

Every one seemed desirous to know what business could have taken so old and poor a man so far a journey from his own home.
— from Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V by Anonymous

I hastened to Smith and confided the good news.
— from Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Basil Wilson Duke

If he cannot examine the details from the actual MSS., there are plenty of excellent reproductions published which will enable him to study them at his leisure.
— from Illumination and Its Development in the Present Day by Sidney Farnsworth