Kishandas here interrupted and attempted to pacify him, when Alikar Tantia, Holkar’s minister, stopped him short, observing to his prince, “You see the faith of these Rangras; [45] they would disunite you and Sindhia, and ruin both. Shake them off: be reconciled to Sindhia, dismiss Sarji Rao, and let Ambaji be Subahdar of Mewar, or I will leave you and take Sindhia into Malwa.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

After telling Aunt Ann, Mrs. Small had spoken of the house in the strictest confidence to Mrs. Nicholas, who in her turn had asked Winifred Dartie for confirmation, supposing, of course, that, being Soames's sister, she would know all about it.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

“But I can do nothing else, man!” said Henchard scornfully.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

But before we retired, the two ladies rummaged up, out of the recesses of their memory, such horrid stories of p. 147 robbery and murder that I quite quaked in my shoes.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The Roman empire (I smile in transcribing the name) might soon have sunk into a province of Genoa, if the ambition of the republic had not been checked by the ruin of her freedom and naval power.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“I don’t know whether you are playing a game with us, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” said he.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“But will he not let me see him?” said Hippolita mournfully; “will he not permit me to blend my tears with his, and shed a mother’s sorrows in the bosom of her Lord?
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

His army is a ragged multitude Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless; Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother's death Hath given them heart and courage to proceed.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

She was only conscious of feeling that to accept his tacit offer of good fellowship was a clearly defined step downward, an open throwing over of standards which, if she had endangered them by her marriage, she had still high hopes of [ 153 ] maintaining, and to which she hoped ultimately to win her husband.
— from The Locusts' Years by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

Forbes listened a moment, shrugged his shoulders, made a whistling mouth, and then walked off to a glass bookcase--the one sign of civilization in the vast room--where he was soon absorbed in early editions of English poets, Lady Lucy's inheritance from a literary father.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

And he told his father he had begun to wonder more and more how his mother had died—how she had died—and then he had remembered what Mrs Stanhope had said to him about his sonship; he couldn't forget that—his sonship—and he did not feel he ought to go on loving his father if there was any doubt about the manner of his mother's death—no son could stand that—and yet he had always loved his father so awfully, so awfully, and he could not believe that he would have done anything to hurt his mother; and yet he did not know—everything seemed so strange and wrong—and he was so very unhappy, and the journey did not make things better for him, for these dreadful thoughts were at the back of everything he saw and heard—even on the sea, on that bully
— from Katharine Frensham: A Novel by Beatrice Harraden

"Mates," said he, solemnly, planting his back against the bitts, "I've sailed this five-and-twenty year before the mast, an' I never yet seed the likes o' that !
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various

How to decide this point themselves the brothers did not know; but as it chanced, fortune was to decide it for them in her own fashion, and that before many suns had set.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green