I have been faithful to my post since the days of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and I will not desert it now.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

She will forget me; and will marry, probably, some one who will make her far happier than I should do.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

There is one person in company who does not like to have Miss Price spoken of.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

If mettal, part seemd Gold, part Silver cleer; If stone, Carbuncle most or Chrysolite, Rubie or Topaz, to the Twelve that shon In Aarons Brest-plate, and a stone besides Imagind rather oft then elsewhere seen, That stone, or like to that which here below Philosophers in vain so long have sought, In vain, though by thir powerful Art they binde Volatil Hermes , and call up unbound In various shapes old Proteus from the Sea, Draind through a Limbec to his Native forme.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

At Goepfritz in Lower Austria, two men personating Summer and Winter used to go from house to house on Shrove Tuesday, and were everywhere welcomed by the children with great delight.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Mr. Tupman no sooner heard this avowal, than he proceeded to do what his enthusiastic emotions prompted, and what, for aught we know (for we are but little acquainted with such matters), people so circumstanced always do.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

As there existed no war, in which he might perform some military achievement, his vanity could only be gratified by invading a foreign country, where, contrary to the advice contained in the testament of Augustus, he might attempt to extend still further the limits of the empire.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

My brother-in-law, in response to urgent appeals—from my wife in particular, who was much concerned for my personal safety—undertook to convey me to Altenburg in his carriage by night.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

‘You will not allow this base newspaper slander to shorten your stay here, Mr. Winkle?’ said Mrs. Pott, smiling through the traces of her tears.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

At last the summit of the interminable series of hills was gained, and Mrs. Pat scanned the solitudes that surrounded her with wrathful eyes.
— from All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

Mr. Penn says that he brought Sir Charles his spectacles from the dining-room before you left for the theatre with the two ladies, and then was sent to his own room by his employer to write the usual letters.
— from The Mystery Queen by Fergus Hume

After a short withdrawal to the ante-room, Mallard produced some delicate slices of bread and butter.
— from The Emancipated by George Gissing

[24] To cite a few names that come most readily to the mind—Jenny Lind, Christine Nilsson, Madame Patey, Sims Reeves, Jean de Reszke, Charles Santley and Edouard de Reszke.
— from A Short History of English Music by Ernest Ford

"There is Captain Kittridge this very minute," said Mrs. Pennel, setting down a tea-cup she had been wiping, and going to the door.
— from The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I found many plants so protected; the glands being specially developed on the young leaves, and on the sepals of the flowers.
— from The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt

He also drew some distinctions with regard to the doctrine of equal rights, and said that the idea of perfect equality of rights, more particularly such as had been broached in France, was fanciful and untrue; that the only doctrine contended for with propriety was, the equal protection of all classes from oppression.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress