I am always anxious about Jonathan, for I fear that some nervous fit may upset him again; so I turned to him quickly, and asked him what it was that disturbed him.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Meanwhile Henchard was sitting up, thinking over his jealous folly in forbidding Farfrae to pay his addresses to this girl who did not belong to him, when if he had allowed them to go on he might not have been encumbered with her.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The nethermost deck of the first machine jogged forward its flyboard with sllt the first batch of quirefolded papers.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I passed two or three years in this manner, between music, study, projects, and journeys, floating incessantly from one object to another, and wishing to fix though I knew not on what, but insensibly inclining towards study.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

That would be just fine, in fact.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Mi trovis la truon jam farita , I found the hole already made.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

When I read it, (Heina was with me and sends you his regards,) I trembled with joy, for I fancied myself already in your arms.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Note 42 ( return ) [ Urbis præfectum ad ligiam fidelitatem recepit, et per mantum quod illi donavit de præfecturâ eum publice investivit, qui usque ad id tempus juramento fidelitatis imperatori fuit obligatus et ab eo præfecturæ tenuit honorem, (Gesta Innocent.
— 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

Goodbye Pete, I’ll come back for you,” and picking up my gun and other necessary traps, I prepared to start immediately upon my journey, for I felt that to follow this trail would not only get us out of our park prison but would lead me to the abode of the Wild Hunter, where perhaps I [116] could talk with him and learn some of the things I was so eager to know about my parents.
— from The Black Wolf Pack by Daniel Carter Beard

I went into the lower, sitting in an old courthouse, which judging from its form and appearance, was built in the year one.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 4, December, 1834 by Various

There is always a temptation to invent some interesting theory in order to explain the origin of vestiges, and a penny paper, which hardly boasts of scientific accuracy, not long ago informed its readers that the slit in the coat lapel is the outcome of a “unique and beautiful custom among the orthodox Jews,” for in former days, when death visited a Jew’s household, he cut the lapel of his coat.
— from The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes by Wilfred Mark Webb

Of course," said John feebly, "I forgot."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 by Various

In former times, an English fort, William Henry, stood here, which, to judge from its few remains, must have been a square redoubt of earth.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

When a man abstains from false testimonies understood in a moral and spiritual sense, and shuns and turns away from them as sins, a love of truth and a love of justice flow in from the Lord through heaven.
— from Spiritual Life and the Word of God by Emanuel Swedenborg

What shall we think of professed practitioners of medicine, if, in the words of Jahr, "from ignorance, for their personal convenience, or through charlatanism, they treat their patients one day Homoeopathically and the next Allopathically;" if they parade their pretended new science before the unguarded portion of the community; if they suffer their names to be coupled with it wherever it may gain a credulous patient; and deny all responsibility for its character, refuse all argument for its doctrines, allege no palliation for the ignorance and deception interwoven with every thread of its flimsy tissue, when they are questioned by those competent to judge and entitled to an answer?
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Here again Audubon speaks for himself, and I shall not now anticipate his account with words of mine, as the Missouri journal follows in full.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) by John James Audubon