O, your linea fortunae makes it plain; And stella here in monte Veneris.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

And then her father returned, ushering in a person and saying, “Here is my friend Mr Franklin that I was speaking of, Sybil, who is going to be our neighbour; down Harold, down!”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He listened to the memorials which had been received, considered the subject of the petitions, and signified his intentions more rapidly than they could be taken in short-hand by the diligence of his secretaries.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Newmarch grunted something which the Professor and I took to be an introduction, and he put a skinny hand into mine.
— from The White Waterfall by James Francis Dwyer

“Say I shall be very happy, Ponsonby, and show him into my study.”
— from The Bishop's Apron: A study in the origins of a great family by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

On either side of this door hang, as a trophy, chains once belonging to the gates of Pisa, and suspended here in memorial of the victory gained over Pisa by the Florentines in the year 1362.
— from A Ride on Horseback to Florence Through France and Switzerland. Vol. 2 of 2 Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady by Augusta Macgregor Holmes

I now pledge to you my sacred word of honor that the golden memories of this glorious occasion, and the possession of this precious album, shall henceforth inspire me to still greater efforts for the success of our cherished enterprise, which means so much for us, so much more for humanity.
— from Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson

Two publishers had refused it, but one with complimentary phrases, and she hoped it mightn’t be impossible to put the thing into acceptable shape.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

I have come several hundreds of miles to interview Patti, and see her I must.
— from The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol II by James Henry Mapleson