o' sight, but how was I to know that, Mr. Tulliver?" "No, no, Bessy; I didn't mean justly the mole; I meant it to stand for summat else; but niver mind–it's puzzling work, talking is.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

On the landing outside the drawing-room Gabriel found his wife and Mary Jane trying to persuade Miss Ivors to stay for supper.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Robert Baddeley (1733-1794), the husband of Mrs. Baddeley, and the original Moses in the "School for Scandal."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Their special sensitiveness has been made sufficiently manifest in the several foregoing sections.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

And this is a thing which "the man in the street" fails sometimes to understand.
— from Fighting France by Stéphane Lauzanne

One afternoon, in the height of this public quarrel, we met in the street; "Franklin," said he, "you must go home with me and spend the evening; I am to have some company that you will like;" and, taking me by the arm, led me to his house.
— from Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader by Benjamin Franklin

He readily fell in with views so like his own, and began to make preparations for an expedition against the Spanish dominions; an expedition which in fact would not have differed essentially from the expeditions he actually did make into the Spanish Floridas six or eight years afterward, or from the movement which still later his fellow Tennessean, Houston, headed in Texas.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

If we may believe Harpokration, Andron, who made the motion in the senate for sending Antiphon and Archeptolemus to trial, had been himself a member of the Four Hundred oligarchs, as well as Theramenês (Harp. v. Ἄνδρων).
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

Heavy coats of mail incased The stalwart frames scarce needing a defense, So strong they were.
— from Under King Constantine by Katrina Trask

"Well, don't you think we're all pretty much in the same fix?" suggested Betty gently, coming over and putting an arm about her.
— from The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point; Or a Wreck and a Rescue by Laura Lee Hope

With one of the revenue officers we made a quick trip to Brooklyn and spent the morning inspecting the ships from South American ports docked in the neighbourhood where the phantom boat had disappeared.
— from The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Now look here, Mrs. Strachey, what about letting me treat the whole Menagerie in the same fashion; sling out all the harpies and adventurers, square the landlord—till how long have you rented the Farme?
— from Twos and Threes by G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern