“Come in, my lord,” said Philip in a low tone, “and I will show you something droll.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Intermediates gave him single words from sentences in Greek, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages, and told him their places in the sentences.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The River Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours into the harbor a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess.
— 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

Can any man think it would be wise to leave such posts in a situation to be at any instant seized by one or the other of two neighboring and formidable powers?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

* VIII Dans les sciences politiques, il est un ordre de vérités qui,
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson

"It would be a case of roast pig, as Charles Lamb says," put in John Berwick.
— from Frontier Boys in Frisco by Wyn Roosevelt

"The wound is slight, but you bled a lot; and the doctor made particular reference to rest and quiet." "Good Lord!" said Philip in deep disgust.
— from Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple

He could think, for Jacqueline’s sake, how much better off she was, lying so peacefully in the old grave-yard, than if she had lived, so weak, so captivating, so unthinking.
— from Throckmorton: A Novel by Molly Elliot Seawell