“Will you be so kind,” said she, “when I am missed, as to say that I am gone home?—I am going this moment.—My aunt is not aware how late it is, nor how long we have been absent—but I am sure we shall be wanted, and I am determined to go directly.—I have said nothing about it to any body.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

They won’t notice me, and I need a little fresh air, for you’ve come just in the nick of time—another two minutes and I should have come to blows!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When thy people and mine are in need and wish for the will of the Great Spirit, then shall my spirit brood over thine and the words that thou shalt speak shall be my words.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

This recalcitrance has, I think, been mainly due to the erroneous conception of Marivaux as, if not a mere fribble, yet a Dresden-Shepherdess kind of writer, good at "preciousness" and patch-and-powder manners, but nothing more.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Bob paused, and then said, with defiant decision, as if resolutely turning his back on that paradisaic picture: "But I don't mind about it, not a chip!
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Why he murdered Mrs. Abercrombie is not ascertained.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

‘Now, if she should be out,’ thought Kit, as he approached the poor dwelling of his mother, ‘and I not able to find her, this impatient gentleman would be in a pretty taking.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

This latter is merely offered to those who are speculative in such matters, and is not advanced as an opinion.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

"This is the first time anybody has suggested that my advice is not always first-class!"
— from The Tale of Daddy Longlegs Tuck-Me-In Tales by Arthur Scott Bailey

Great Mark Antony Is now a widower.
— from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

It is better to cook mushrooms as soon as they are peeled, and to rinse them only as much as is necessary, as they lose some flavor by soaking.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

Well, that boy opened his mouth real wide to laugh at the funny story and his mamma all of a sudden slipped a string around the aching tooth and she pulled it out in a moment, and it never ached again.
— from Uncle Wiggily's Travels by Howard Roger Garis

I’ve as much money as I need, and I always do exactly what I like outside office.
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett

The word "messtin" apparently is not a misspelling, since each instance of the word was spelled as one word, not two.
— from The Brown Brethren by Patrick MacGill

Another step towards the immediate solution of our problem is, to establish the fact that woman stands on a level with man, and is neither an appendage nor a "relict."
— from A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household by Abby Morton Diaz

The trial of Red Bird, and his languishing death in prison, were still fresh in their memories, and it needed a good deal of resolution, as well as a strong conviction of conscious innocence, to brace them up to such a step.
— from Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, John H., Mrs.