The descendants of Odin, (whose race was not extinct till the year 1060) are said to have reigned in Sweden above a thousand years.
— 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

The name of Castellae was unknown in the viiith century; the kingdom was not erected till the year 1022, a hundred years after the time of Rasis, (Bibliot. tom.
— 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

Afterwards it will be well to extend the practice still further, and not to go to the theatre when some fine piece is performing, and if your friends invite you to see some dancer or actor to decline, and, if there is some shouting 250 in the stadium and hippodrome, not even to turn your head to look what is up.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

May this plain declaration, then, lead you, as you can do nothing else, to turn your love into rage, your affection into resentment, and so to take my life; for if I yield it up in the presence of my beloved husband I count it well bestowed; it may be by my death he will be convinced that I kept my faith to him to the last moment of life."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“They will let it you by the month,” said she, “and if you pay a month in advance you need not even tell them your name.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She couldn’t get near enough to tell you to take them off till it was too late.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

May this plain declaration, then, lead you, as you can do nothing else, to turn your love into rage, your affection into resentment, and so to take my life; for if I yield it up in the presence of my beloved husband I count it well bestowed; it may be by my death he will be convinced that I kept my faith to him to the last moment of life.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This course was dealt with in eager and devouring silence; and it was only when his plate was nearly empty that the young duke made the ritual remark: “They can’t do this anywhere but here.”
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Because it is not the testimony rendered by a solitary father or by a solitary MS.; no, nor even the testimony yielded by a single Church, or by a single family of MSS.
— from The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon

"I knows nothin' else to tell you, 'less you would be pleased to hear 'bout what de cyclone did to my old missus and de old Sterling house.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

I'm not 'ere to tell you no fairy tales; and the reason why I'm in a position to orfer up these vawses—all richly gilt, and decorated in three colours, the most expensive ever made—the reason I'm able to sell them so cheap as I'm doin' is this—( he lowers his voice mysteriously )—arf the stuff
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, April 13, 1895 by Various

It is not easy to tell you this, but you know that I was never guilty of deception, and so I cannot pretend to a friendship that is not real."
— from The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

‘Yes; they have been so cruel as not even to tell you the names of these robbers?
— from Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It was now explained to the young king that this formation defended all sides from attack at the same time.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

"He must have passed near enough to touch you, and you let him get away."
— from The Outdoor Girls in Army Service; Or, Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys by Laura Lee Hope

I never need explain things to you.
— from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber

"If we assert that the Word of God was born of God in a peculiar manner, different from ordinary generation, let this, as said above, be no extraordinary thing to you, who say that Mercury is the angelic word of God.
— from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant

If his method was good for the divination of the course of events ten hours old, why should it not be good for those of ten years or ten centuries past; nay, might it not extend ten thousand years and justify the impious in meddling with the traditions of Oannes and the fish, and all the sacred foundations of Babylonian cosmogony?
— from On the Method of Zadig Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" by Thomas Henry Huxley