“What a place is this that you inhabit, my son!” said he, looking mournfully at the barred windows and wretched appearance of the room.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But it put in the time, you see, and was almost like talking; it was almost as if I was saying, “Sandy, if you and Hello-Central were here in the cave, instead of only your photographs, what good times we could have!”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The least I should in this point, quoth Panurge, is to thank you, though it be the most I can do.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Well, Madam, said Palamides, I trust to your promise, and if ye will abide here half an hour I shall bring her to you.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

In my perplexity I turn to you, my old school chum, for you may be able to help me out of the difficulty.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

151 These events took place in the third year before Pyrrhus crossed into Italy, and in the fifth before the destruction of the Gauls at Delphi.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

But all this preamble is to tell you, Mrs. Jewkes, that now I desire you'll study to oblige her, as much as (to obey me) you was forced to disoblige her before.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

All the hints and affirmations of others I treated as malignant, baseless slanders; your own self-accusations I believed to be overstrained; and all that seemed unaccountable in your position I trusted that you could account for if you chose.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

He bent over the boy and contemplated him with kind and pitying interest, tapping the young cheek tenderly and smoothing back the tangled curls with his great brown hand.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

He was raising the cup to his lips when he suddenly perceived, in the transparent yellow infusion, the image or reflection of a face that was not his own.
— from Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs by Lafcadio Hearn

15:30 Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

" "I won't pay it," threatened the young merchant.
— from Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress by George Randolph Chester

To encourage inventors an Act of Parliament was passed in the thirteenth year of Queen Anne’s reign (chapter xv.)
— from Time and Clocks: A Description of Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time by Cunynghame, Henry H. (Henry Hardinge), Sir

The unimagined value of a middle name suddenly presented itself to the young man's mind, and his conscience slipped behind the camellias and made no protest.
— from A Republic Without a President, and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

The central part of the poem is of course the ten blessings promised to the various tribes, but these are preceded by an introduction (vv. 2-5), in which the formation of the people is traced to Yahweh's revelation of Himself and His coming forth as their King.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy by Andrew Harper

"What sort of a place is this that you should want to see it?
— from In the World by Maksim Gorky

The Roman and Greek months have now little or no agreement; they say, however, the day on which Romulus began to build was quite certainly the thirtieth of the month, at which time there was an eclipse of the sun which they conceive to be that seen by Antimachus, the Teian poet, in the third year of the sixth Olympiad.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch