I picture Mr. Larkins waiting on me next morning, and saying, ‘My dear Copperfield, my daughter has told me all.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

1, 9, 3, how many days have I frittered away in utter vapidities .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

78 drēorignes f. sadness, sorrow , GD ; Æ. [‘ dreariness ’] drēorilic , drēorlic = drēorig drēorsele m. dreary hall , Wif 50.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The historian of the Middle Ages justly remarks, that “the most deadly hatred is that which men, exasperated by proscription and forfeitures, bear their country.” 7 .
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Meriones took aim at him with a spear, nor did he fail to hit the broad orb of ox-hide; but he was far from piercing it for the spear broke in two pieces long ere he could do so; moreover Deiphobus had seen it coming and had held his shield well away from him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The fact was, as she explained to Dorian, behind a very shabby fan, one of her married daughters had come up quite suddenly to stay with her, and, to make matters worse, had actually brought her husband with her.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Then with a somersault springing into the air again, he fell to stand with both his feet close together upon the saddle, and there made above a hundred frisks, turns, and demipommads, with his arms held out across, and in so doing cried out aloud, I rage, I rage, devils, I am stark mad, devils, I am mad, hold me, devils, hold me, hold, devils, hold, hold!
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He sells meat, does he not?...
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I felt very brave at being left alone in the solitary house, the protector of Em’ly and Mrs. Gummidge, and only wished that a lion or a serpent, or any ill-disposed monster, would make an attack upon us, that I might destroy him, and cover myself with glory.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

In the mean time an honest man sought me in marriage; I consulted my director; he charged me to dismiss this man, who accordingly received his farewell.
— from The Visions of Quevedo by Francisco de Quevedo

They told me if I looked back they'd shoot my damned head off."
— from Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

Doubtless a brave man doing his duty would have scorned to yield himself thus; but right and wrong had met face to face, and the wrong had a righteous traitor in his citadel.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

Oiseau Mouche, dit Hupecol de Cayenne.— Buff.
— from The Naturalist's Repository, Volume 1 (of 5) or Monthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural History: etc. etc. by E. (Edward) Donovan

In the autumn of 1760, before he joined the forces, there had been much malignant fever and dysentery: the camp at Warburg was near the battlefield (31 July, 1760), where many of the dead were scarce covered with earth; there were also many dead horses, and in a time of heavy rains, the camp, with the neighbouring villages and fields, was filled with the excrements of a numerous army.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

Still more distinctly however than the whisper I heard Miss Tita’s own voice.
— from The Aspern Papers by Henry James

[54] To those who are in the habit of recurring with a feeling of devotion to the golden gone-by times of our forefathers, and who "track back" upon antiquity to hunt out subjects for admiration, it must be in some degree consolatory to discover, that even in these degenerate days there still exist amongst us men capable of recording the noble deeds of the "mighty living;" and that one of the most important occurrences [289] of modern date has found an historian worthy of the subject which it has been made his duty to transmit to posterity.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

No one had seen or heard of Captain Roach since Breckenridge made his fruitless attempt to take the city, but his office was occupied by a grizzly veteran, who hardly gave himself time to sit down in Captain Roach's chair before declaring that he hadn't come there to stand nonsense from anybody, and that everyone liable to military duty, Home Guards and all, must make tracks for Camp Pinckney or be dragged there by the neck.
— from Rodney, the Overseer by Harry Castlemon