"Mon Dieu!" ejaculates a spectral Minister, "what is he doing down there?"
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

—No hables mal de esta buena gente.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

landay 2 n a sack that holds more than twenty-five gantas and is of a strong material, designed esp.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Sentábase el erudito reposadamente en el sillón de su mesa de estudio, 15 la cual aparecía cubierta por diversas suertes de papeles, conteniendo notas, apuntes y referencias, sin que el más pequeño desorden las confundiese, a pesar de su mucha diversidad y abundancia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

"I hope my dear Miss Dashwood will excuse the liberty I take of writing to her; but I know your friendship for me will make you pleased to hear such a good account of myself and my dear Edward, after all the troubles we have went through lately, therefore will make no more apologies, but proceed to say that, thank God!
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Anyways, there's more and more danger, every minute, of its drawing to that.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

what farther fates attend This life of toils, and what my destined end?
— from The Odyssey by Homer

For his paper I wrote Pariser Amusements and Pariser Fatalitaten, in which I gave vent in a humorous style, a la Heine, to all my disappointing experiences in Paris, and to all my contempt for the life led by its inhabitants.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

We may do everything but that; we mayn't do that."
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

Every day I get piles of letters asking what I meant by this and that, and won't I give my documentary evidence for saying this or that great gun did so and so at such a time."
— from Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

Marlow went on, however, saying, "I had previously told her, indeed, that I had discovered all her dark and treacherous schemes--how she had labored to make this whole family miserable--how she had attempted to blacken the character of my dear Emily--imitated her handwriting--induced you to misunderstand her whole conduct, and thrown dark hints and suspicions in your way.
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

“My dear Elthorne, would to Heaven I could say that there is a doubt.
— from Nurse Elisia by George Manville Fenn

Or, in other words, inasmuch as we started with the clear principle, that in a series of naturally-disposed mud beds the lowest are the oldest, we should come to this result, that the further we go back in time the more difference exists between the animal and vegetable life of an epoch and that which now exists.
— from The Past Condition of Organic Nature Lecture II. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species" by Thomas Henry Huxley

In this point, Mathematics differs entirely from most other subjects.
— from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood