My name is, said the one, Sir Felot of Langduk; and my name is, said the other, Sir Petipase of Winchelsea.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

For as Hierarchies and Dynasties of all kinds, Theocracies, Aristocracies, Autocracies, Strumpetocracies, have ruled over the world; so it was appointed, in the decrees of Providence, that this same Victorious Anarchy, Jacobinism, Sansculottism, French Revolution, Horrors of French Revolution, or what else mortals name it, should have its turn.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Kanang magtiayúna dakù kaáyug mihúras nga ikabílin sa ílang mga anak, That couple has a large number of possessions to leave their children.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

‘My name is Smangle, sir,’ said the man with the whiskers.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Concerning the caste organisation of the Uppiliyans, Mr. Hemingway writes that “when a complaint of a caste offence is made, notice is sent to the Pattakkāran (headman), and to the whole Uppiliyan community in the neighbourhood, notifying the accusation and the provisional expulsion of the accused.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

My name is Soradaci, and my wife is a Legrenzi, daughter of a secretary to the Council of Ten, who, in spite of all prejudice to the contrary, determined to marry me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

CHAPTER XIII "A Sight which I shall Never Forget" Just as the sun was setting upon that melancholy night I saw the lonely figure of the Indian upon the vast plain beneath me, and I watched him, our one faint hope of salvation, until he disappeared in the rising mists of evening which lay, rose-tinted from the setting sun, between the far-off river and me.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Well, for that matter, in my native isle speaking French does not go for much.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

To my notion,” I says, “it could announce Christmas to this town far better than forty-’leven little separate trimmed-up trees....
— from Neighborhood Stories by Zona Gale

In this we may notice its substance , general form , sculpture , pubescence , and composition .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

There are, however, people who would extend that dangerous maxim even to the commerce of friendship; and it must be allowed (for morality, neither in small matters nor great, can gain any thing by suppressing the truth), it must be allowed that in the commencement of an intimacy the quarrels of friends may tend to increase their mutual regard, by affording to one or both of them opportunities of displaying qualities superior even to good humour; such as truth, fidelity, honour, or generosity.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

As for the opinion entertained by two or three ingenious friends of mine that the reverend dean, if he were the author, would have used a different style in his narration, saying "my nephew" in speaking of Don Luis, and interposing, from time to time, moral reflections of his own, I do not think it an argument of any great weight.
— from Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera

" Monday next is set apart for the trial of several female causes.
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

Would every one who reads this book, but ask their acquaintance to join their little to their own, [Pg 94] (supposing it was only what they would spend one morning in the week at the pastry-cook's,) this added together would make no inconsiderable sum in the list of donations; and a lasting benefit would accrue to their unfortunate fellow-creatures of the same age, and with the same feelings as themselves, and who, like them, have to pass through this world, perhaps to spend many years in it.
— from Deaf and Dumb! Third Edition by Elizabeth Sandham

Shakspeare Papers, by Dr. Maginn: No. I. Sir John Falstaff 494 No. II.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

Nay, but may not I see her for a moment—but for a moment—to say how her father is come all the way to see her—ay, and hath a store of trinkets for her—and is come to comfort her into the assurance that all will go well?
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

They say that new commissioners from France arrived at Guadaloupe, sent Victor Hughes home in irons, liberated the crew, said to the captain that they found him to be an officer bearing a regular commission from the United States, possessed of a vessel called the Retaliation, then in their port; that they should inquire into no preceding fact, and that he was free with his vessel and crew to depart; that as to differences with the United States, commissioners were coming out from France to settle them; in the meantime, no injury should be done to us or our citizens.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

I gave it the name of the portall of St. Peter, because my name is so called, and that I was the first Christian that ever saw it."
— from French Pathfinders in North America by William Henry Johnson