She still appeared in her Marquise costume and danced a minuet with Monsieur de Truffigny, Monsieur Le Duc de la Jabotiere's attache; and the Duke, who had all the traditions of the ancient court, pronounced that Madame Crawley was worthy to have been a pupil of Vestris, or to have figured at Versailles.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

'But at Agra, walking in the streets, a man cried a debt against me, and approaching with many witnesses, would hale me to the courts then and there.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

My daughter’s daughter, Mademoiselle Voissart, she marry von Monsieur Croissart, and den again, my daughter’s grande daughter, Mademoiselle Croissart, she marry von Monsieur Froissart; and I suppose you say dat dat is not von ver respectaable name.-” “Froissart!” said I, beginning to faint, “why, surely you don’t say Moissart, and Voissart, and Croissart, and Froissart?”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

So I home all in a sweat, and dined by myself, and after dinner to the Old James, and there found Sir W. Rider and Mr. Cutler at dinner, and made a second dinner with them, and anon came Mr. Bland and Custos, and Clerke,
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

By its means cities are destroyed, and men exhorted to the performance of evil deeds.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

I was just going by, and Nikíta, he says, "Good-bye, Anna Petróvna," he says, "you must come and dance at my wedding.
— from Redemption and two other plays by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

(Those Discoveries, which give Light and Satisfaction to lxii the truly Learned, I must confess, are Darkness and Mystery to the less capable: Φέγγος μὲν ξυνετοῖς, ἀξυνετοῖς δ᾽ Ἐρεβος .)
— from Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Mr. (Lewis) Theobald

Pray let me know at what time you would wish to have a positive and decided answer—I mean at what time you would consider my answer as an engagement, which could not be altered on any account; and let me also know what you mean in saying that I am to (31) assist you in selecting music, conducting and directing as much as possible.
— from The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah' by F. G. (Frederick George) Edwards

“I am now too old to catch mice; my teeth are gone and my claws are dull; and my heartless master says he is going to drown me in the pond.”
— from The Story in Primary Instruction: Sixteen Stories and How to Use Them by H. Avis (Hannah Avis) Perdue

Classes of Misses Belle Childs and Kittie Armes, 13.49, and of Mrs. Alice Ball, Misses Cala A. Delano and Mary L. Hubbard, 14.62; for Student Aid, Atlanta U. 28.11 Taunton.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 38, No. 06, June, 1884 by Various

So I went straight to my chamber and did as my comrade bade me, somewhat angry with myself for thinking it needful.
— from A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

Finally, it should be borne in mind that even if physical and mental characters acquired during a man's lifetime are not transmitted, yet there is a sort of transmission of acquired characters which has been of immense importance to the evolution of the race.
— from Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson

The poor who had not fled were in terror lest the Mahdi and his hosts might come any day and massacre them.
— from The Story of General Gordon by Jean Lang