And when the Great Kaan learned that Nayan was taken right glad was he, and commanded that he should be put to death straightway and in secret, lest endeavours should be made to obtain pity and pardon for him, because he was of the Kaan's own flesh and blood.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In truth he could not help feeling that he was an efficient shield for her against poverty; and so, if her expensive ways ever troubled him for a brief moment, he presently dismissed the thought and said to himself, “Let her go on—even if she loses everything she is still safe—this interest will always afford her a good easy income.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

At last, he came up to me, and said: "Are you a doctor, M. Aronnax?" I so little expected such a question that I stared some time at him without answering.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

What would it be if some lucky event sent us all back to Guernsey, never to leave it again ... or at least, not for a very long time!
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

always command a clean shirt, a mutton-chop, and a truss of straw; and when I die, I shall leave effects sufficient to defray the expence of my burial.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

For a time in summer, leverets especially seek this kind of cover, and farmers and farm-labourers kill numbers with dog and gun—and this at a time when they are quite unfit for food.
— from The Confessions of a Poacher by Watson, John, F.L.S.

"I should like extremely," said Mrs. Maitland, "to invite Miss Lovel to pass the winter with me.
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

The simple truth is—and he knows nothing about this controversy who fails to perceive such truth—that the system whose hands are now armed against us has always borne these arms in its heart; that the fang which is now bared has hitherto been only concealed, not wanting; that the tree which is to-day in bloody blossom is the same tree it ever was, and carried these blossoms in its sap long ere spreading them upon its boughs.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

“She is,” said Ladybird, earnestly; “she is the amiablest girl on the face of the great round world.
— from The Staying Guest by Carolyn Wells

'Ut quisque contemplissimus est, ita solutissimæ linguæ est,' said Seneca.
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Thomas De Quincey

“I have often noticed while abroad how prone are the masters of many tongues, when striving to keep silent in one, to break out in some less euphoneous speech, and thus give themselves away, or at least arouse a contagious smile of good-natured disapproval.
— from Mr. Oseba's Last Discovery by George W. (George William) Bell

I should like ever so much to do something else that the papers would praise me for, but I don't know what it could be!
— from What Happened to Inger Johanne, as Told by Herself by Dikken Zwilgmeyer

I declare, it seems like every single soul is against me–and me a poor helpless woman!”
— from Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge