*Bokke* and her daughter were announced, and a pair of prettier savages I never saw.
— from In the Heart of Africa by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

I have long since settled all my accounts of that nature; besides, I never took a dead body out of a grave but in the name of science, and never for my own profit, seeing I never sold one in my life, or got anything by it."
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

“Madame will remember that we are not in Paris; that our police system, if not so wonderful as yours, is still a closer and a more present thing.
— from Peter Ruff and the Double Four by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Other woods may be burnt, but pine, which has veins of pitchy sap, is not suitable.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster

Long service in one particular situation is not so common now as it used to be.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of natural history and rural life (Illustrated) by Richard Jefferies

Only two names were excepted from the roll; the other prisoners, seventy in number, stood in line, awaiting their unknown fate.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

For a mile and a-half to the racecourse there could be no pleasanter occupation than looking at the happy multitudes who were thronging thither; and, I am bound to say, that on rich or poor shoulders I never saw so many handsome faces in my life.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray