A panic terror of the end of the world seized the good people of Leeds and its neighbourhood in the year 1806.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

To all men, to all women and all children, it is now indutiable that your Arrangement was false.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Taken in the raid which led to the battle of Otterburn, in Northumberland, in the year 1388, and which forms the theme of the ballads of Chevy Chase. 501.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

The treasurer went immediately with it out of the palace, and carried it a great way off; and when she had set it up one end reached to the very palace; at which time the Prince, thinking it small, found it large enough to shelter two greater armies than that of the Sultan his father’s, and then said to Paribanou: “I ask my Princess a thousand pardons for my incredulity; after what I have seen I believe there is nothing impossible to you.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

O sir, said I, my heart will burst; but, on my bended knees, I beg you to let me go to-morrow, as I designed: and don't offer to tempt a poor creature, whose whole will would be to do yours, if my virtue would permit!—I shall permit it, said he; for I intend no injury to you, God is my witness!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

I never intended that you should actually slay the lad.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

‘He is not, I tell you.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

‘It is not, I tell you; it is the London air: you are pining for the fresh breezes of your country home, and you shall feel them before you are two days older.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Alwinus bishop of London; he was sent into Normandy in the year 1013, saith Asser.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

May you reach your longed-for fatherland in safety, and may fortune interpose no impediment to your prosperous journey; may the eyes of your friends and kinsmen behold you enjoying in peace and tranquillity the remaining days of your life—and that they may be as many as those of Nestor!"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

My idea now is that you establish a base on the sea-coast, fortify and leave in it all your artillery and cavalry, and enough infantry to protect them, and at the same time so threaten the interior that the militia of the South will have to be kept at home.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

If I were so foolish, I should not be riding with you now; but I have always said, in contradiction to every body, and even in spite of being universally laughed at for my singular opinion, that you, my dear Mr. Wormwood, were by no means silly, nor ignorant, nor insolent, nor intrusive; that you were, on the contrary, a very decent author, and a very good sort of man; and that you were so benevolent, that you daily granted to some one or other, the greatest happiness in your power: it is a happiness I am now about to enjoy, and it consists in wishing you 'good bye!'"
— from Pelham — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"This hasty and imperfect notice I trust you will not deem unworthy of being communicated to the highest military authority, and I shall esteem myself fortunate indeed if I shall be instrumental in the remotest degree in their advancement.
— from The History of the First West India Regiment by A. B. (Alfred Burdon) Ellis

“It is rather a long story, Miss Valerie, and, if you wish to hear it, you will oblige me by sitting down while I narrate it to you.”
— from Valerie by Frederick Marryat

But the people did not forget that they were there first, and so, while William was in Normandy, in the year 1067 A.D., hostilities broke out.
— from Comic History of England by Bill Nye

I now insist that you resign your executorship and relieve us of your presence."
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

"Passing that point, the most important misapprehension which I notice is, that you regard them as 'charges' at all, when their context, both at their beginning and end, show they are not.
— from Roughing It, Part 8. by Mark Twain

I now impart to you.
— from Within the Temple of Isis by Belle M. Wagner