David got a heavy blow some years ago as I told you, I think; and he took it hard, but it did not spoil him: it made a man of him; and, if I am not much mistaken, he will yet do something to be proud of, though the world may never hear of it."
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

"What a mistake I have made in not stifling him in my arms!" repeated the hardy chief of the Chouans on quitting General Bonaparte.
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

"By Naturalism," said he, "I mean analytical and experimental methods based on facts and human documents.
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

"Then what shall you do, my poor dear uncle?" "Nay," said he, "I mun ask you that.
— from Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Arnold Bennett

We could make no contract with a school-master, and during that time, till 1831, we had no school house in Marshpee, and scarcely any schools.
— from Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained by William Apess

with a little brisk smile—he never shakes hands, I must add, on these occasions.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

They did not succeed, however, in making any use of it.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Perhaps it might have been a quarter of an hour more, however, and we were all looking out sharp for birds of any kind to pop at, happening to turn my head, I saw the long reeds were moving about the banks below, and the trees twisting about furiously; and no sooner had I made a few paces than, good heavens!—right in the break of the trees at the landing-place— there was a huge brute of some sort coming slowly up out of the water; then another, and another, glistening wet in the bright light as the shadow of the branches slipped behind them.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 by Various

Wherefore I pray you that ye be no devil's sakke, but according to the truth ever justify, as ye shall make answer before God; and do not suffer her in my absence to be married to any other man.
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

William had now shown himself in Maine as conqueror, and he was before long to show himself in England, though not yet as conqueror.
— from William the Conqueror by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman