The depressed Pickwickians turned moodily away, with the tall quadruped, for which they all felt the most unmitigated disgust, following slowly at their heels.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

you shall not—you shall not dog me unto death!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

repeated Sir Thomas, in a tone of most unanswerable dignity, and coming farther into the room.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Dílì siya mukuntra ug dakù níya, He won’t play against anyone bigger than he is.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

31 She accustomed her husband to consider Julian as a youth of a mild, unambitious disposition, whose allegiance and gratitude might be secured by the gift of the purple, and who was qualified to fill with honor a subordinate station, without aspiring to dispute the commands, or to shade the glories, of his sovereign and benefactor.
— 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

Then he took his horse and fled all that ever he might unto Dame Bragwaine, and told her of his adventure.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

My mind troubled about Betty Michell, ‘pour sa carriage’ this night ‘envers moy’, but do hope it will put me upon doing my business.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

You have deceived our trust; And made us doff our easy robes of peace, To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel: This is not well, my lord, this is not well.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Cool, make up directly to 250 cc., and filter.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

We have some difficulty in fording the brook Cherith, for the banks are precipitous and the stream is deep and swift; those who are mounted upon donkeys change them for horses, the Arab attendants wade in, guiding the stumbling animals which the ladies ride, the lumbering beast with the Soudan babies comes splashing in at the wrong moment, to the peril of those already in the torrent, and is nearly swept away; the sheykh and the servants who have crossed block the narrow landing; but with infinite noise and floundering about we all come safely over, and gallop along a sort of plateau, interspersed with thorny nubk and scraggy bushes.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner

Our lines were manned until day break.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

Unfortunately, he had no intention to be on easy terms with his good luck, but was forever making unreasonable demands upon his elderly brother-in-law for money, and for yet more money.
— from The Hand of the Mighty, and Other Stories by Vaughan Kester

Ah, most ungrateful daughter!
— from The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni

If psychologists are asked, what the business of psychology is, they generally make some such answer as follows, if they belong to the empirical school: that this science has to investigate the facts of consciousness, its combinations and relations, so that it may ultimately discover the laws which govern these relations and combinations.
— from An Introduction to Psychology Translated from the Second German Edition by Wilhelm Max Wundt

Annie’s face had not a trace of care or anxiety on it, but her eyes would not quite meet Cecil’s, and Cecil sighed as she turned away, and her heart, too, began to whisper little, mocking, ugly doubts of poor Annie.
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

Antonio, take my advice, and run away; this Ferdinand is the most unmerciful dog, and has the cursedest long sword!
— from The Duenna: A Comic Opera by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It is a reminiscence of the last ball, partly brought on by compunction at having dragged poor granny thither, in consideration of my unguarded declaration of intense dislike to be chaperoned by Lady Britton.
— from Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 2 by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge