I will ask you to remember also what I began by saying, that we had done with the subject and might proceed to the style.
— from The Republic by Plato

“For Heaven’s sake, Leo,” I began, but she broke in— “Nay, listen not to him.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Liza, my dear, I was wrong ... forgive me, my dear," I began, but she squeezed my hand in her fingers so tightly that I felt I was saying the wrong thing and stopped.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

and how near Your honour was t' have catch'd a certain clap, Through your credulity, had I but been So punctually forward, as place, time, And other circumstances would have made a man; For you're a handsome woman: would you were wise too!
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

The beach here is approximately 400 feet wide and is backed by scrub-covered dunes, which rapidly give way toward the west to a rather dense growth of low shrubs and trees.
— from A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds by Lowery, George H., Jr.

We should make it better by starting fresh in the morning.”
— from Roger Willoughby: A Story of the Times of Benbow by William Henry Giles Kingston

When the rotation of the mirror R becomes sufficiently rapid, then the flashes of light which produce the second or stationary image become blended, so that the image appears to be continuous.
— from Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis by Albert A. (Albert Abraham) Michelson

In brief both Seward and Russell were regarding emancipation in the light of an incitement to servile insurrection, and both believed such an event would add to the argument for foreign intervention.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Scepticism suddenly reared its head—rather nervous scepticism, not at all assured of its back, but scepticism nevertheless.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Fires still seethed in its heart, and the white-hot lava, held in balance by some subterranean arrangement of pressures, bubbled up here, like a geyser that never overflows and never subsides.
— from The Lost Warship by Robert Moore Williams

It was called into being by special circumstances and conditions in 1830; reached its golden age in 1835, and slowly declined till the revolution of 1848 reduced it to a mere excrescence on the life of art students, as it now is.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie