I asked him why, for I feared that he, being a foreigner, might not be quite aware of English legal requirements, and so might in ignorance make some unnecessary trouble.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

dear, Miss Woodhouse—well, at last, I fancy, he looked round and saw me; for instead of going on with her buyings, they began whispering to one another.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

All at once he heard a rustling, and when he looked round, a strange man stood before him, who wore a green coat and looked right stately, but had a hideous cloven foot.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

When I got up to my little room and said my prayers, I did not forget Joe's recommendation, and yet my young mind was in that disturbed and unthankful state, that I thought long after I laid me down, how common Estella would consider Joe, a mere blacksmith; how thick his boots, and how coarse his hands.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I oppose too little resistance and suffer myself to incline too much to the other side of the balance, excepting that I moderate them,
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

You are beauty to the bone, added the strange wretch, or you could not look so well as you do, with so little stomach, so little rest, and so much pining and whining for nothing at all.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

A man in a dress coat and a white waistcoat peeped into the little room and said: “Miss Arabella has just gone on.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

i. p. 69,) a barbarous inroad of the Scots, at a time (A.D. 1137) when law, religion, and society must have softened their primitive manners.
— 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

Anon Sir Lancelot rose and said, “My lord, I have brought hither my lady the queen again, as right requireth, and by commandment of the Pope and you.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Enter Malcolm, old Seward and his Son, Macduff, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, Ross, and Soldiers, marching. MALCOLM.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

It carries the solemn thought that God's name is made known among the heathen by the punishment of His unfaithful people, not less really, and sometimes more strikingly, than by the blessings bestowed on the obedient.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

With tremendous emphasis he confirmed the fact, and added that he had never in his life regretted anything so much as his having failed to carry out an intention he had formed respecting it; for he meant to have purchased that house, 35, St. James's Square, and then and there to have burnt it to the ground, to the end that no meaner association should ever desecrate the birthplace of Nell.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

The Turks landed some men who encountered the Chevalier La Riviere and some Maltese troops, with whom they had some lively skirmishes.
— from Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs by E. Hamilton (Edward Hamilton) Currey

Napoleon, however, did not like republicans, and superseded Monsieur Grandet (who was supposed to have worn the Phrygian cap) by a man of his own surroundings, a future baron of the Empire.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

This never failed to draw a substantial "bill" from the wad which Jean Jacques always carried in his pocket-loose, not tied up in a leather roll, as so many lesser men freighted the burdens of their wealth.
— from The Money Master, Volume 2. by Gilbert Parker

The people had to stand in rows for hours after hours in front of the bakers’ shops in order to get their little ration, and still most of them {415} had to go empty away.
— from Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling by Bertha von Suttner

The next moment she happened to look round and saw Moody through the parted curtains.
— from My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins