There it is, in good marking ink, and there you will find it on all your old things, which we have kept in the house—Anne Catherick, as plain as print!"
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

You may rest assured that Mr and Mrs Garland can’t help hinting about their present, in store, and that Mr Abel tells outright that he has his; and that Kit is the happiest of the happy.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

For many years I have been the chief Greek interpreter in London, and my name is very well known in the hotels.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Come whosesoever head is hot; thou of mind ungoverned, be it chaos as of undevelopment or chaos as of ruin; the man who cannot get known, the man who is too well known; if thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He who brought to L. Silanus the sentence of death, did him a very great kindness, in that, having received his answer, that he was well prepared to die, but not by base hands, he ran upon him with his soldiers to force him, and as he, unarmed as he was, obstinately defended himself with his fists and feet, he made him lose his life in the contest, by that means dissipating and diverting in a sudden and furious rage the painful apprehension of the lingering death to which he was designed.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Also the King of the Hundred Knights saw King Idres on foot; then he ran unto Gwiniart de Bloi, and smote him down, horse and man, and gave King Idres the horse, and horsed him again; and King Lot smote down Clariance de la Forest Savage, and gave the horse unto Duke Eustace.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

By and by, by appointment, comes Commissioner Pett; and then a messenger from Mr. Coventry, who sits in his boat expecting us, and so we down to him at the Tower, and there took water all, and to Deptford (he in our passage taking notice how much difference there is between the old Captains for obedience and order, and the King’s new Captains, which I am very glad to hear him confess); and there we went into the Store-house, and viewed first the provisions there, and then his books, but Mr. Davis himself was not there, he having a kinswoman in the house dead, for which, when by and by I saw him, he do trouble himself most ridiculously, as if there was never another woman in the world; in which so much laziness, as also in the Clerkes of the Cheque and Survey (which after one another we did examine), as that I do not perceive that there is one-third of their duties performed; but I perceive, to my great content, Mr. Coventry will have things reformed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Mrs. Cholmondeley considers him extremely clever: she says he will push his way by his talents; all I know is, that he does little more than sigh in my presence, and that I can wind him round my little finger."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

After this I'm meanin' to make sure the bar's in place when I'm left alone, and Moses kept inside the house along with me.
— from Afloat; or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Douglas, Alan, Captain

Who knows if they have not already followed you here?… Ulysses, flee; your life is seriously threatened."
— from Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

"I assure you, madam, she has not asked me to carry either," answered George; who, though he knew perfectly well of the secret correspondence, had kept it to himself.
— from Maggie Miller: The Story of Old Hagar's Secret by Mary Jane Holmes

‘Not at first, perhaps,’ said the Hatter: ‘but you could keep it to half-past one as long as you liked.’
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

It was not a much-frequented street, but the young doctor knew instinctively that his visitor had been away in the heart of the town at the booksellers' shops buying cheap novels, and ordering them magnificently to be sent to Dr Rider's; and could guess the curious questions and large answers which had followed.
— from The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

" She came of a great family, for all that; but she did not know it, and the old clerk did not know it, though he had so much written down; but one of the old crows knew about it, and told about it.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

A thick wire, which was kept in the hole while the ramming was going on, is now withdrawn, and a straw filled with fine powder is introduced into its place with a bit of match-paper fixed to the upper end.
— from Bertha's Visit to Her Uncle in England; vol. 3 [of 3] by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

[ 377 ] Though he would never know it, though he was destined to go on to the end in his fool’s paradise of indomitable ignorance, Martin Collingwood, most masculine of masculine types, who had vowed that no woman should ever rule him or patronize him, accepted, in that hour, the terms he had repudiated, and thrust his neck rapturously, for all time, beneath the yoke of petticoat government.
— from The Locusts' Years by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee