We do not envy them, but let this gallant exploit be added to those ancient memorials.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

Of course you do not expect to be listened to as they do, still—” “I should think not,” said the girl with the Roman nose; “did I ever tell you of the time I went to make a round of calls with Ethel, and—” “Found she was leaving her sister’s cards by mistake?” said the girl with the classic profile.
— from The Teacup Club by Elisa Armstrong Bengough

Stimulated by the volleys and cheers of Williams’s troops, they were ready, nay eager, to be led to the assault the second time.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

The cases that have been cited do not exhaust the black list that might be drawn up from the accounts already referred to.
— from Viscount Dundee by Louis A. Barbé

But I do not expect to be listened to.
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

While in any other great city a vagabond child is a ruined man, while nearly everywhere the boy left to himself is to some extent devoted and left to a species of fatal immersion in public vice, which destroys honor and conscience within him, the gamin of Paris, though externally so injured, is internally almost intact.
— from Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius by Victor Hugo

These our brethren, haggard, hopeless, hardened, vicious, on whose faces sin has graved deeper lines than either sorrow or poverty; this old age which is not venerable, this infancy which is not loveable, these childish faces, or faces which should have been childish, peering from amidst elvish locks, and telling of a precocious familiarity with sin,—these glowering upon us from the tottering West Bow, with its patched and dirty windows, from the still picturesque Lawnmarket, from the many-storeyed houses of the High Street,—these are spectres not easily to be laid to rest, and “polite society,” which has become perfect in the polite art of indifference, must encounter them, sooner or later, in one way or another.
— from Notes on Old Edinburgh by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Not even the Boer leaders then suggested the latter as a possible policy.
— from South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900 by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

[339] Marcombes did not expose the boys long to the excitement of Paris, but at once hurried them to Geneva, and settled them to work, where Francis showed a great deal of resignation and good-humour in accepting his fate.
— from English Travellers of the Renaissance by Clare Howard