It appears to me to be almost more applicable to his insertions.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

The day happened to be Sunday, and when I looked on the loveliness around me, and thought how it had grown and changed, and how the little wild-flowers had been forming, and the voices of the birds had been strengthening, by day and by night, under the sun and under the stars, while poor I lay burning and tossing on my bed, the mere remembrance of having burned and tossed there came like a check upon my peace.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

"I don't know that myself," answered the huntsman, "I have lost my way in the forest."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

If my mother fancied that SHE was to be that woman, I think it was a perfectly justifiable notion on her part; for the Earl (my godfather) was always most attentive to her: I never knew how deeply this notion of advancing my interests in the world had taken possession of mamma’s mind, until his Lordship’s marriage in the year ‘57 with Miss Goldmore, the Indian nabob’s rich daughter.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

In early periods, however, unexplored lands and seas existed only in the human imagination, and men appear to have included them within the laws of analogy as slowly as their descendants so included the planets.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Saladin,—whose valour was such that not only from a man of little account it made him Soldan of Babylon, but gained him many victories over kings Saracen and Christian,—having in divers wars and in the exercise of his extraordinary munificences expended his whole treasure and having an urgent occasion for a good sum of money nor seeing whence he might avail to have it as promptly as it behoved him, called to mind a rich Jew, by name Melchizedek, who lent at usance in Alexandria, and bethought himself that this latter had the wherewithal to oblige him, and he would; but he was so miserly that he would never have done it of his freewill and Saladin was loath 29 to use force with him; wherefore, need constraining him, he set his every wit awork to find a means how the Jew might be brought to serve him in this and presently concluded to do him a violence coloured by some show of reason.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I had no doubt that my excellent father would give me five hundred sequins during the day, and I enjoyed my anticipation the honour I would derive, in the opinion of the lovely countess, by my exactitude and prompt discharge of my debt.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

if you declare that the prince’s generosity will, excite no gratitude in you, he might answer that he is not, bound to be grateful to Pavlicheff, who also was only satisfying his own conscience.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also when a Prize is propounded to many, which is to be given to him onely that winneth; or mony is thrown amongst many, to be enjoyed by them that catch it; though this be a Free Gift; yet so to Win, or so to Catch, is to Merit, and to have it as DUE.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

"I must admit that he is not a very stirring figure at present.
— from The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson

“Keep a sharp look-out,” said the man at the helm in a harsh growl; “don’t want them fellows to come up and break my head while I’m not looking.”
— from The Black Bar by George Manville Fenn

"Then, if it must be, bid Molly run across to Simpkins and say on my authority that he is to stop the clock chimes at sunset: and—yes—she is after that to say to my lord Saul that I wish to see him presently in this room."
— from A Thin Ghost and Others by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

The dog then turned from me, and attacked the animal that was highest in motion; and the horse immediately set off full speed.
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

Ger. siebenschlafer ) is rather a squirrel than a mouse, and that he is still esteemed a dainty edible, as he was by the Romans: indeed when fat, just before he retires to hibernate, he might be preferred to 'possum and other strange dishes on which some hospitable Americans regale themselves and the patient palates of touring Presidents.
— from Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Marcus Porcius Cato

Let it be noted, however, that he did not enter that stronghold until the 10th of April, 1547, that is, more than ten months after Beaton's murder, and therefore he is not to be reckoned among those who had concocted and carried out the assassination of that prelate.
— from John Knox by William M. (William Mackergo) Taylor

He's found out more about the HC in one day than I ever knew.
— from The Last Straw by Harold Titus

But first she had done a thing which I could not in the least approve of: for she had gone up to my mother, and thrown herself into her arms, and begged to be allowed to return to Glen Doone.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Many a time have I seen poor men or women after toiling hard all the week coming to the pay office for their wages, but instead of receiving any being cursed at and told that it was a very great favour on their employers'
— from The Life of Roger Langdon, Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. by Ellen Langdon

[Footnote 7: It is not remarkable that Virgil failed to make acknowledgment to Varro in the Georgics when he failed to make acknowledgment to Homer in the Aeneid .
— from Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Marcus Porcius Cato