But you must hold your tongue about my uncle; he’s my uncle, remember; and I’ll scold papa for quarrelling with him.’
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

We are fairly puzzled by his manner of mixing up real and imaginary persons; his boy John Clement and Peter Giles, citizen of Antwerp, with whom he disputes about the precise words which are supposed to have been used by the (imaginary) Portuguese traveller, Raphael Hythloday.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The introduction of the words [Greek: dia tinos] seems a mere useless repetition, as in the second chapter [Greek: en tini] added to [Greek: peri ti].
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

It was a most unexpected reverse, and it forced them at once to urge on with energy the remaining preparations for the war.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Convicted fools they are, madmen upon record; and I am afraid past cure many of them,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

p. 78) eagerly seized the most unfavorable report, and is followed by Orosius, (vii. 25,) whose authority is oddly enough overlooked by the indefatigable, but partial Tillemont.
— 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

“This was just how I used to shudder and blush, thinking myself utterly lost, when I was plucked in physics and did not get my remove; and how I thought myself utterly ruined after I had mismanaged that affair of my sister’s that was entrusted to me.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

William Reilly, the Jesuit and Papist, is the cause of it, and will be the cause of my utter ruin and ignominious death.”
— from Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

One small group investigated the secret of the Ultimate Energy of annihilation of matter under Roal, another investigated the beams, under Trest.
— from The Last Evolution by Campbell, John W., Jr. (John Wood)

You've been following me about, making unjustified remarks, and it's got to stop!"
— from Baseball Joe in the Big League; or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles by Lester Chadwick

[Pg 301] CHAPTER XXV The Land of the Straddle-Bug A night in Chicago (where I saw Salvini play Othello), a day in Neshonoc to visit my Uncle Richard, and I was again in the midst of a jocund rush of land-seekers.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

My uncle rose and in the most friendly way led me through the shop.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

My pride forbad it: my understanding revolted at it.
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

And yesterday—if I had whispered yesterday, 'Montargis is dead, but there's a chick of the breed roosting in my upper room,' as I might very well have done, very well indeed, and kept your money into the bargain—what then, Miss Mealy-mouth?
— from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth

One of his most popular works is his Introduction to a Devout Life —the most useful, readable, and intelligible manual of devotion ever written for persons living in the world.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

'You are, child,' my uncle replied; and I failed not to avail myself of the privilege.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick