He gathered up his effects and departed quietly from Marksville the day before I did, the suspicions of his instrumentality in procuring my liberation rendering such a step necessary.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

'Do you pretend to believe,' Mrs Lammle resumes, sternly, 'when you talk of my marrying you for worldly advantages, that it was within the bounds of reasonable probability that I would have married you for yourself?'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And I myself found there in this Carnac country of which M. Le Rouzic speaks, that the doctrine of the reincarnation of ancestors, which, as he agrees, is the same thing as the incarnation of spirits, is quite common, though as a rule only talked about among the Bretons themselves.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

‘So Mr. Pickwick said at the time, my Lord,’ replied Sam; ‘and I was wery careful o’ that ‘ere suit o’ clothes; wery careful indeed, my Lord.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

“Fie, my Lord!” returned she, “you really are insufferable.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

I ceased my laboured reasoning, struggled to my feet, and, standing over him, laid my hand on his shoulder.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Then Milorádovich looked round significantly at the other generals.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They dismounted and, leaving their horses tied in the wood at the roadside, they went to the water's edge and presently embarked, a half dozen men in each of as many long river skiffs, of the type used by the fishermen in carrying out their nets.
— from The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise by Emerson Hough

Anna asked, and Mr. Leighton replied: "She is an orphan niece of Colonel Hetherton's, and a great heiress, I believe, though I never paid much attention to the absurd stories told concerning her wealth."
— from The Rector of St. Mark's by Mary Jane Holmes

As the minstrel's art consisted of several branches, the professors were distinguished by different denominations, as, "rimours, chanterres, conteours, jougleours or jongleurs, jestours, lecours, and troubadours or trouvers;" in modern language, rhymers, singers, story-tellers, jugglers, relaters of heroic actions, buffoons, and poets; but all of them were included under the general name of minstrel.
— from The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Joseph Strutt

Thousand wagon-loads of this Pamphleteering and Newspaper matter, lie rotting slowly in the Public Libraries of our Europe.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

‘He is not overhead, my lady,’ replied Swithin’s grandmother.
— from Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

Into this depression pours all the water that comes through a ravine more than 4 miles long, receiving several tributaries on the way; thus draining several hundred acres of steep hillsides from which storm water runs off almost as quickly as from a roof.
— from Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke