“To save the king?” said D’Artagnan, looking at Aramis as he had looked at Athos.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The king said, "Do you think, bonde, that betokens anything?" "Sire, that is certain," said he.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Price $2.50 Official Seal Bottom Stamp Herman's US Army Shoe For Boy Scouts of America T. E. O'Donnell Inspector {409} Bailey's Boy Scout Underwear Consisting of Knit Shirts Drawers and Union Suits Made in plain and open mesh effect cloth, in olive drab regulation color, also in Egyptian and white.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

"Why, how did my father know," said Don Louis, "that I came this road and in this dress?"
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But I didn't think it was to be kept so dark.
— from The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

“Now, you will understand, that if we are to catch any birds, you must not show yourself; and you, tall gentleman, if you please, will just keep stooping down all the time.
— from John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Now I know," said Daphne, after she had stood for half an hour under the smoke-browned walls of the kitchen watching Assunta's manipulation of eggs and flour, the long kneading, the rolling out of a thin layer of dough, with the final cutting into thin strips; "to make Sunday and festal-day macaroni you take all the eggs there are, and mix them up with flour, and do all that to it; and then you boil it on the stove, and make a sauce for it out of everything there is in the house, bits of tomato, and parsley, and onion, and all kinds of meat.
— from Daphne: An Autumn Pastoral by Margaret Pollock Sherwood