Your servant,’ and then walking out with me in his most fashionable manner, making a good deal of noise on the pavement with his shoes, and humming a tune as we went.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Instead, he revolved this mystery in his mind: why do they find Smee lovable?
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

I suppose, however, he had this move in his mind—he was always half-cracked—and then considered her provided for.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

I did not mean to confess to you that in the first jealous weeks of my marriage, before I had come to my right mind, I hid myself in the school one evening when they were together there, and I heard what they said.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Thus he endured the extremity of the fire, and was cruelly tortured for the few fagots that were brought being insufficient to burn him, they were compelled to strike him down into the fire, where lying along upon the ground, his lower part was consumed in the fire, whilst his upper part was little injured, his tongue moving in his mouth for a considerable time.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

But here contrariwise, man (if he make that good use of them that he should) is rather the better and the more praiseworthy for any of those kind of hindrances, than otherwise.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Will they dare to arrest a man in his Majesty’s service?”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

In some cases, like monastic impropriators, he made an arrangement by which a vicar was provided with a fixed stipend; and
— from The Historical Growth of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson

At any time, moreover, if he made admissions or a partial confession, the opportunity was taken, by skilful questioning, to bring him, step by step, to full acknowledgement of his offences.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

I doubt not that he understands the case; but I am sure, that, to meet it, he must deal directly with Slavery, the fountain and origin of all the noisome inhumanity exposed before us to-day.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Now and then she caught herself thinking that his two predecessors—who were gradually becoming merged in her memory—would have said this or that differently, behaved otherwise in such and such a case.
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

He gives to others maladies which he has not himself: his false madness inoculates his mistress with true madness.
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

If in the night he chanced to be taken, then should he not rise out of his bed for the space of foure and twentie houres, so casting the clothes that he might in no wise prouoke the sweat, but lie so temperatlie, that the water might distill out softlie of the owne accord, and to absteine from all meat if he might so long suffer hunger, and to take no more drinke neither hot nor cold, than, would moderatelie quench and asswage his thirstie appetite.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt by Raphael Holinshed

“I hae ma suspicions, Mr. Maddox; I hae ma suspicions,” the little man replied, cunningly wagging his head and giggling.
— from Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant

Us belong to Marse Ike Horn, Marse Johnnie's pa, right here on dis place
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

He won’t tell lies; he’s the first man I have met who never tells lies; all the others tell lies, everything’s lying.
— from On the Eve: A Novel by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev