It must, however, be confessed, that the studied obscurity of a prophet, the figurative style of the East, and the deceitful medium of a French or Latin version may have betrayed us into error and heresy, in this abridgment of Persian theology.
— 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

Her airy little voice mocked him.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Friends, why did ye once so lightly Vaunt me happy among men?
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Suddenly bubbles seemed bursting beneath my closed eyes; like vices my hands grasped the shrouds; some invisible, gracious agency preserved me; with a shock I came back to life.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Sub la arboj en la kampo staras ĉevaloj, kaj ili manĝas la verdan molan herbon.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The two delegates of the National Convention stared at each other, as if to express their surprise that a dweller in such an abode should ever have permitted them to enter it; but ere either of them could venture to speak, Lord Valentine made his appearance.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He is my Ward-robe man, my Cater, Cooke, [14] Butler, and Steward; lookes vnto my horſe: And helpes to watch my wife.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

So to my office and by and by home, where my wife and her master were dancing, and so I staid in my chamber till they had done, and sat down myself to try a little upon the Lyra viall, my hand being almost out, but easily brought to again.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Nobody doubted that Smollett was paid for casting his mantle over Lady Vane: moreover, he might expect a success of scandal.
— from Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang

la vida me han dado los célebres Alamillos, que fueron míos, y que ahora, según entiendo, son de todo el mundo, porque lo 20 mismo Licurgo que otros labradores de la comarca, me han ido cercenando poco a poco, año tras año, pedazos de terreno, y costará mucho restablecer los linderos de mi propiedad.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

This was handed through the picket fence, which is by my quarters, to a young lady visiting my house at that time, with a request to give it to me, which she did.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

Finally, in the anguish of torture, La Voisin maintained her declarations.
— from Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV by Frantz Funck-Brentano

It is supposed that the warning was unheeded, for there the little vessel met her end.
— from The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Ida Lee

"It looks very much," he thought, "as though I'm in for a spell of fever.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

LETTER V. Miss Harriet Byron to Miss Lucy Selby.—
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

"What did Lord Ventnor mean?" he asked.
— from The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy