Presently I heard Pilot bark far below, out of his distant kennel in the courtyard: hope revived.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

33 L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer, “The Cochin Tribes and Castes,” 1909, i. 99.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Pati ang mga bátà, They were all killed, including the children.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Let me know if thou canst be content to remain away a few months longer from thy mother's kitchen.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Here we were called to Dinner, and Sir Roger ended the Discourse of this Gentleman, by telling me, as we followed the Servant, that this his Ancestor was a brave Man, and narrowly escaped being killed in the Civil Wars; 'For,' said he, 'he was sent out of the Field upon a private Message, the Day before the Battel of Worcester .'
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep and did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he left the sheep entirely in his charge.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Morrel seized the count’s hand and kissed it; the count allowed him to pay the homage he felt due to him.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

p. 69, 70) excuses the worship, especially of the pope, and quotes, from the Koran itself, the case of Eblis, or Satan, who was cast from heaven for refusing to adore Adam.
— 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

The vintage of 1825 which your mother-in-law keeps in the cellars at Lanstrac will suffice to pay me.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Men saw it and marvelled, for it was known in the camps that she had spurned men who had laid fortunes at her feet.
— from Snowdrift: A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

What Mr. Kruger intended to convey was this: according to our law a newcomer has not his burgher rights immediately.
— from South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900 by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

I said, ‘A man is about to be killed in this church.’
— from It Was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

Old Mrs. Berrington had known in the case of Lionel—it had all been arranged for him.
— from A London Life, and Other Tales by Henry James

Suddenly, before we knew it, the car was dropping down on us, coming at us in a curve, having rounded the horse and cart.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Just as the service closed, another man jumped up, took his hat, knocking in the crown, and said, “Now, Bill, where is your five dollars?
— from Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific Coast by Thomas Crosby

Quite a number of our men and some from our attached infantry working-parties were killed in these cellars by shell-fire.
— from Fighting the Boche Underground by H. D. (Harry Davis) Trounce

Lord Spencer and others have shown how the cattle of England have increased in weight and in early maturity, compared with the stock formerly kept in this country.
— from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin