Even if I accepted the compliment for myself I could hardly name any volume which would be less likely to lie at the elbow of one of Moriarty's associates.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Then I turned upon the torturer, spoke to him long out of the heat of my indignation, calling him names at which he seemed to wither; and at length, pointing toward the residencia, bade him begone and leave me, for I chose to walk with men, not with vermin.
— from The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson

But Ling would, or should, have stood at the entrance and called him; or at the most, if calling had not aroused him, have come boldly in and shaken him.
— from A Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas by Harry Collingwood

The mountain is cleared halfway, not a rock or a tree affording shelter; above that is the timber-line.
— from Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman

As she came near me, I called her name, and in the same breath entreated her not to scream.
— from A Chosen Few: Short Stories by Frank Richard Stockton

It might occur to some pupil that since a circle is a line (as used in modern mathematics), it can have no area.
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

If government be merely a creation of man, it must be subject to the varying temper of man; it cannot fix absolutely the rights of man; it can have no absolute title to his obedience.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Thou hast not altogether missed thy mark In coming hither now, although I thus Seem to let Shimei for the present slip.
— from The Epic of Paul by William Cleaver Wilkinson