‘Then, you see, my good fellow,’ said the single gentleman, ‘that while we have no doubt whatever of the truth of this disclosure, which has so providentially come to light—’ ‘Meaning hers?’ said Dick, pointing towards the Marchioness. ‘—Meaning hers, of course.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The same day that Leandra made her appearance her father removed her from our sight and took her away to shut her up in a convent in a town near this, in the hope that time may wear away some of the disgrace she has incurred.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He was not in his best spirits, but seemed trying to improve them; and, at last, made himself talk nonsense very agreeably.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Lessons with me, indeed, that charming summer, we all had a theory that he was to have; but I now feel that, for weeks, the lessons must have been rather my own.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Accordingly, Ghino, at the abbot's instance, came to court, upon that assurance, nor had he been long about the pope's person ere the latter reputed him a man of worth and taking him into favour, bestowed on him a grand priory of those of the Hospitallers, having first let make him a knight of that order; which office he held whilst he lived, still approving himself a loyal friend and servant of Holy Church and of the Abbot of Cluny."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

For many years this genuine Heir and successor of the Viex de la Montaingne has had his headquarters at Bombay, where he devotes, or for a long time did devote, the large income that he receives from the faithful to the maintenance of a racing stable, being the chief patron and promoter of the Bombay Turf!
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I would that for the sake of poetry I could leave my hero, bathed in that heroic light, erect and menacing.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Oh, I'm so glad now she let me have this room!”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Happening one day to mention Mr. Flexman, a Dissenting Minister, with some compliment to his exact memory in chronological matters; the Doctor replied, "Let me hear no more of him, Sir.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

“What was he like?” “Monseigneur, he was whiter than the miller.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Louise, meanwhile, had gone to the railway station, intending to take a ticket for Victoria.
— from The Paying Guest by George Gissing

“Well, then, in the library, Mr. Hickman,” said Lady Eleanor, compassionately, “when you've eaten some luncheon.”
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever

From this it appears that there are now in this admirable collection—for it is an admirable one—fifteen thousand distinct works (upwards, we believe, of forty-five thousand volumes), comprising the best and most expensive works in every department of learning, which scholars and men of learning may have the use of in their own studies for the small subscription of two pounds a year.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 127, April 3, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

“No—yes, he is—or, rather, yes and no; for, like myself, he is at his wits’ end, and doesn’t know what to do; therefore I have come to seek your advice,” and with this she broke down and wept.
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

She breathes; her pulse beats; her lips move in low murmur; her bosom’s swell shows sign of returning animation.
— from The Death Shot: A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

"Yes, Le Merquier, Hemerlingue's confidential man, the vile hypocrite who converted the baroness, doubtless because his religion forbids him to have a Mohammedan for his mistress."
— from The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

“I have learned much here,” she said, “about popular government as exemplified by these United States.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

It was a program that would have killed a woman less magnificently healthy and determined.
— from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber

One of the jury shrewdly observed, that the circumstance of Mr. Tisdall's having sustained so heavy a loss might have suggested to some ill-minded persons accidentally hearing it, the plan of robbing him, after having murdered him in such a manner as might make it appear that he had committed suicide; a supposition which was strongly supported by the razors having been found thus displaced, and removed from their case.
— from The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu