You were live enough, eh?" said the butcher.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

All the internal and not a little external evidence shows that the object of this book is to give the impression that Chinese ideas, culture and learning had long been domesticated in Japan.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Then let ’em either show their innocence by not understanding what they hear, or else show their discretion by not hearing what they would not be thought to understand.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

Now, if it had been of an advantage to this species to have laid eggs even smaller than those now laid, so as to have deceived certain foster-parents, or, as is more probable, to have been hatched within a shorter period (for it is asserted that there is a relation between the size of eggs and the period of their incubation), then there is no difficulty in believing that a race or species might have been formed which would have laid smaller and smaller eggs; for these would have been more safely hatched and reared.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Since then the maid had been below, and like everyone else she thought the young ladies were in their own room; Madame Danglars, therefore, went to bed without a shadow of suspicion, and began to muse over the recent events.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Maggie had drawn nearer and nearer; she must see it too, though it was bitter to her, like everything else, since Tom did not care about her seeing it.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

la secundaria; en los otros los cursos del bachillerato empalman con los de la escuela elemental sin transición alguna.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Li elvenis el sia tendo por eltrovi kial la parolantoj faras tiom da bruo, kaj kial ili tiel ekkriis kaj ekridis.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The fell disease ran on its course, every day the fever became fiercer, and at last even Ellen saw there was little hope of his recovery.
— from The Weird of the Wentworths: A Tale of George IV's Time, Vol. 2 by Johannes Scotus

On the 9th of June Lord Ellenborough expressed suspicions that a mutinous feeling was being engendered among the sepoys, by a fear on their part that their religion was about to be tampered with; this expression of opinion led to various counter-views in both Houses of parliament.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

You were live enough, eh?' said the butcher.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

We are the lads 'een eij scheeren,' that is, 'to shave an egg.'
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

Looking at Lady Estelle, Earle saw that her face had grown very pale, and her hands trembled.
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame