Long life to the great Conde de Lemos, whose Christian charity and well-known generosity support me against all the strokes of my curst fortune; and long life to the supreme benevolence of His Eminence of Toledo, Don Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas; and what matter if there be no printing-presses in the world, or if they print more books against me than there are letters in the verses of Mingo Revulgo!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Then I went back to the main camp for a last look at that wonderful army, where the tin-roofed messes take French conversation lessons with the keen-faced French-Canadian officers, and where one sees esprit-de-corps in the making.
— from The New Army in Training by Rudyard Kipling

That was what was the matter with us; and I believe that if I had argued with my companion for a little longer, he would have agreed to leave Kellner to the old man, and have set out with me in search of Faris.
— from The Treasure of the Tigris: A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman

There’s not much choice for a lad like Horace.’
— from In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing

"You don't mind my company for a little longer, I hope?" said the rector.
— from The Dweller on the Threshold by Robert Hichens

[Pg 178] with Frances Sutherland rushed into my clenched fist and Louis Laplante went down with a thud across the doorway.
— from Lords of the North by Agnes C. Laut