“I have no horse,” said d’Artagnan; “but that is of no consequence, I can take one of Monsieur de Treville’s.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

I know of no case in criminal procedure where illusions of this kind might be of importance, but it is conceivable that such illusions enter in numberless instances.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Prohibition (or negative command ) is commonly expressed by means of the form with do .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

King Lud (as the aforesaid Geoffrey of Monmouth noteth) afterwards not only repaired this city, but also increased the same with fair buildings, towers, and walls, and after his own name called it Caire-Lud, [3] as Lud’s town; and the strong gate which he built in the west part of the city he likewise, for his own honour, named Ludgate.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

On one theme, which is commonly before our eyes, and in respect of which our national character is changing fast, let the plain Truth be spoken, and let us not, like dastards, beat about the bush by hinting at the Spaniard and the fierce Italian.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

I did not so much as pray to be delivered from it or think of it; it was all of no consideration in comparison to this.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

She was his last Venetian love, and remained a faithful correspondent until 1787; and it is chiefly from her letters, in which she comments on news contained in Casanova’s letters to her, that light is thrown on the Vienna-Paris period, particularly, of Casanova’s life.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Perhaps I have as yet no right; but by what other name can I call you?
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

And men went forth from Alfred's face, Even great gift-bearing lords, Not to Rome only, but more bold, Out to the high hot courts of old, Of negroes clad in cloth of gold, Silence, and crooked swords, Scrawled screens and secret gardens And insect-laden skies— Where fiery plains stretch on and on To the purple country of
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

But what could I expect there; by what flattery could I picture to myself any chance of success in that quarter; and yet, what other news could I care for or value than what bore upon her fate upon whom my own depended?
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

The answer, I think, is, that the artistic imagination can neither express itself through distorted objects, nor can it confuse in one blurred series of images the trivial and the urgent; its business being to see life with such sense of proportion as the concentrated artistic vision of the artist ensures.
— from Personality in Literature by R. A. (Rolfe Arnold) Scott-James

In the synonymy of each subspecies, the plan has been to cite: (1) the name first proposed; (2) the first usage of the name combination employed by me; (3) all other name combinations in chronological order that have been applied to the subspecies concerned.
— from Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. (Robert Lewis) Packard

xiii.-xvi. contain merely a farrago of nonsense conveyed in conversations with the prince of the Mummelsee, who explains to Simplicissimus the construction of the "earth's crust" and the nature of sylphs, and in turn is treated by him to an account of earthly affairs, on which he makes the usual commonplace satirical remarks (see the Introduction).
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

When the writer arrived in Siam ten years ago, there was but one native convert in connection with the Presbyterian mission church.
— from Siam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, &c. by N. A. (Noah A.) McDonald

"Gasoline is only nineteen cents in California.
— from It Pays to Smile by Nina Wilcox Putnam

“And how good of you, my dear Lady Clonbrony, in defiance of bulls and blunders, to allow us a comfortable English fire-place and plenty of Newcastle coal in China!—And a white marble—no! white velvet hearthrug painted with beautiful flowers—Oh! the delicate, the useful thing!”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

Here, where the number of the states coining money from olden times and the quantity of native coin in circulation were very considerable, the -denarius- did not make its way into wider acceptance, although it was perhaps declared a legal tender.
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen