What is the name of the man at Richmond who supplies Selby with orchids?" "Harden, sir." "Yes,--Harden.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Certes, meseemeth none of the magnificences already recounted can compare with this."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

[195] Having well mastered the language spoken by these peoples, [196] Strehlow has been able to bring us a large number of totemic myths and religious songs, which are given us, for the most part, in the original text.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

What is the name of the man at Richmond who supplies Selby with orchids?" "Harden, sir.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

She now observed to me, aloud, resuming her former restraint, that it was useless to hear more, or to say more, and that she begged to put an end to the interview.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

There was no one to make any resistance.
— from Young Folks' History of Rome by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The startling novelty of the methods and results described in this 62 paper had the effect of paralyzing discussion at the time.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

Lucinda sat upon the upset kitchen stove and stared; and Jane leant against the kitchen dresser and smiled—but neither of them made any remark.
— from The Tale of Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter

Or Wyndham, just to freedom and the throne, The master of our passions and his own?" Speaker Onslow says, "there was a spirit and power in his speaking that always animated himself and his hearers, and with the decoration of his manner, which was, indeed, very ornamental, produced, not only the most attentive, respectful, but even a reverend regard, to whatever he spoke.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

Articles on the present state of Architectural Literature, on Christian Iconography and Legendary Art, and on the intended Exhibition of Ancient and Mediæval Art; Letters of Dr. Johnson and Alexander Pope, and original Log of the Battle of Trafalgar; Reviews of Campbell's Lives of the Judges, Hanna's Life of Dr. Chalmers, Worsaae*'s Primeval Antiquities, Merimée's Pedro the Cruel, Ticknor's Spanish Literature, Washington Irving's Mahomet, Milman's Tasso, Craick's Romance of the Peerage, Jones's Life of Chantrey, Boutell's Christian Monuments (with four plates), &c. &c. With Notes of the Month, Antiquarian Researches, and Historical Chronicle.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 by Various

Within the confined space of the Tank the noise of the motors and rapid bark of the quickfirers and the metallic rattle of the maxims muffled all other sounds from without; yet Ralph caught the sudden roar of the inimitable British cheer as the Tommies swarmed over the top.
— from To the Fore with the Tanks! by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

There is no one knows about it; no one to make a row about it; and the Government won't let the poor wretches import arms to defend themselves.
— from Sunrise by William Black

Fortunately, we now realize that none of these measures are required.
— from The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy by J. Morris (Josiah Morris) Slemons

But from the primitive naturalistic outlook there may arise reconstructions of nature and cosmic speculations on a large scale, expanding into naturalistic systems of the most manifold kinds, beginning with those of the Ionic philosophers and coming down to those of the most recent times.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto