“‘Judge not rashly’, says the Gospel,” replied the cardinal.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

“Judge not rashly, say the gospel and the cardinal,” replied Athos.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Jeff nodded rather sadly.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Hyrcanus, supreme in Judea, now reduced Samaria and Idumea, and was only troubled by the conflicting parties of Pharisees and Sadducees, whose quarrels agitated the State.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

"Not very cute just now," returned somebody, dryly.
— from Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns; Or, Sinking the German U-Boats by Halsey Davidson

“Vinnie, I declare if I didn’t hear that strange voice again just now reciting something.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, August, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

When too long take off the bottom joint; no reel, simply a few yards of line running loose behind, the hook whipped to one or two feet of gut, and one No. 6 shot about six inches above the hook, having no rings, no line bagging, you could push in the point of the rod anywhere, and drop the worm by shaking the rod.
— from Twenty-Six Years Reminiscences of Scotch Grouse Moors by William Alexander Adams

The system answered splendidly while magazines were few, But journal follows journal now, review succeeds review; And when the monthly parcel I have carefully perused, Alas, I find the characters are woefully confused!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, March 9th 1895 by Various

Rosemary, Sarah, Shirley and Aunt Trudy went to the exercises and all through the hot June night Rosemary sat, wide-eyed and delighted, wondering if the day would ever come when she could sit on the platform in a white frock with her arms filled with roses, and perhaps be called on to read an essay.
— from Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence

I got up off the shaky chair, my joints now really stiff from sitting in it.
— from The Old Die Rich by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

But what I said just now requires some further explanation.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

John Sargent, John Prince, Benjamin Lynde, Jacob Ashton, George Deblois, William Browne, William Wetmore, Andrew Dalglish, John Turner, James Grant, Joseph Blaney, P. Frye, Henry Higginson, Archelaus Putnam, Francis Cabot, David Britton, Samuel Porter, William Pynchon, P. G. Kast, Thomas Poynton, John Fisher, Weld Gardner, Samuel Flagg, John Mascarene, Nathaniel Daubney, Nathan Goodale, E. A. Holyoke, Richard Nicholls, William Pickman, Jos. Bowditch, William Cabot, C. Gayton Pickman, Ebenezer Putnam, Cabot Gerrish, Nathaniel Sparhwak, S. Curwen, William Gerrish, William Vans, John Nutting, Rowland Savage, Timothy Orne, Jos.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark