" "Why, no; I entered his service the very day we left London.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Now I eat his salt bread.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Is there not in every human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? Grave and obscure questions, to the last of which every physiologist would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean Valjean hours of reverie, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by civilization, and regarding heaven with severity.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

In order to enter his boy at Brienne, Charles de Buonaparte presented a certificate signed by the intendant and two neighbors, that he could not educate his sons without help from the King, and was a poor man, having no income except his salary as assessor.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 1 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

"It's really been one of the nicest I ever had," she answered, "for one reason because it's lasted so long.
— from Mary Ware in Texas by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Henry, however, ever fond of excitement and display, seized the pretext for making a royal progress into the north, knowing well that every great noble as he passed, especially at that particular period, would vie with his neighbour in entertaining his Sovereign with luxury and splendour.
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

“Her name is Eve,” he said, in the hurried way which was rather pathetic.
— from The Grey Lady by Henry Seton Merriman

“Going to introduce new inventions, eh?” he said.
— from Patience Wins: War in the Works by George Manville Fenn

Alison was now in excellent humour; she sang a few snatches of "Gilquhiskar," and "Troly loly Lemendow," two merry old ditties, while she played with Morton's preposterous beard, and acted the coquette, and he affected the gallant—each in secret despising the other.
— from Bothwell; or, The Days of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

Her walk, her carriage, resemble nothing I ever have seen before.
— from Samuel Brohl and Company by Victor Cherbuliez

Nimbus is either heavy stratus, massive strato-cumulus, [164] or a combination of these with stratiform clouds above, and possibly ragged masses of fracto-cumulus below.
— from Cloud Studies by Arthur William Clayden

* Garibaldi was born in the city of Nice in Eighteen Hundred Seven, being one of the advance-guard of a brigade of genius, for great men come in groups.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard