[to himself, counting jugs on dresser.] — Half a hundred beyond.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

Finally, leading him out of the church they carried him to the judgment seat and seated him on it, and the duke's majordomo said to him, "It is an ancient custom in this island, senor governor, that he who comes to take possession of this famous island is bound to answer a question which shall be put to him, and which must be a somewhat knotty and difficult one; and by his answer the people take the measure of their new governor's wit, and hail with joy or deplore his arrival accordingly."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

James Ollerenshaw did his avuncular duty by formally and grimly protesting against the marriage.
— from Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Arnold Bennett

we find already enough fully to justify our denouncing him as an Atheist.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

I conferred with this Toparimaca of the next way to Guiana, who conducted our galley and boats to his own port, and carried us from thence some mile and a-half to his town; where some of our captains caroused of his wine till they were reasonable pleasant, for it is very strong with pepper, and the juice of divers herbs and fruits digested and purged.
— from The Discovery of Guiana by Walter Raleigh

The company in the cabin were in a very jovial state of feeling, and it would take a chapter to record all the jokes of Dr. Hawkes and Uncle Moses.
— from Asiatic Breezes; Or, Students on The Wing by Oliver Optic

Did you have a feeling, or did he tell you, did he have quarters similar to the ordinary Russian people who have similar jobs, or did he appear to have better quarters?
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Did you ask him for the job or did he ask you?
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

At the time of the rebellion of Kara Yazijí, Seid-ul-Arab, 241 Kalender Oghlí, Jennet Oghlí, Delí Hassan and Sejiáh Oghlí in the time of Ahmed I. they assailed a great caraván here, which they plundered, killing more than two thousand men.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi