“Come to my forge,” said the king, “no one can overhear us there; besides, I don’t want my mother to suspect the capture of the Ruggieri.
— from Catherine De Medici by Honoré de Balzac

Their attack was very furious, partly from heavy stones falling into the boat which threatened to break holes in her bottom, as well as from flights of arrows which came whizzing about our ears, and even wounded some of us: Therefore being in desperation, we pushed off from the shore to return to sea, setting four of our men to row, while the other five determined to repay some part of the civility we had received, and immediately handled our fire-arms and bows.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

TO BUILD THE TEMPLE WALLS; TO THOSE WHO IN THE LATER DAYS ANYWHERE WORK IN LIKE SPIRIT TO ENLARGE THEIR SPHERE OF USEFULNESS, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED AN APPRECIATION
— from Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr

“See here, Chot; we can fasten this from the outside, and the smugglers can never get out unless they batter it down, and they won’t try that if we let them know we’re waiting out here for them.”
— from Comrades on River and Lake by Ralph Victor

Le sergo nous reluque , the policeman has his eye on us , “the bulky is dicking.”
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

“I suppose my forefathers used to get all their meals there,” said poor Emily Shaw, who has at all times a gentle, sad way of speaking, and then seemed on the verge of uncomplaining tears, “but I don't quite feel competent to undertake it now.
— from The Jamesons by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

This blacking is merely applied with a piece of sponge, and the boots should not be put on until the blacking is dry und hardened.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton