When Christian princes, so called, lay aside their foolish and unchristian wars and quarrels, and send a body of fit persons to travel over the east, and bring us faithful accounts of all ancient monuments, and procure us copies of all ancient records, at present lost among us, we may hope for full satisfaction in such inquiries; but hardly before.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Of my aunt and Miss Clarissa remaining with us; and our walking in the garden; and my aunt, who has made quite a speech at breakfast touching Dora’s aunts, being mightily amused with herself, but a little proud of it too.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I am resolved to keep account of all these matters, and Mr. Longman has already furnished me with a vellum book of white paper; some sides of which I hope soon to fill with the names of proper objects: And though my dear master has given me all this without account, yet shall he see (but nobody else) how I lay it out, from quarter to quarter; and I will, if any be left, carry it on, like an accomptant, to the next quarter, and strike a balance four times a year, and a general balance at every year's end.—And I have written in it, Humble RETURNS for DIVINE MERCIES; and locked it up safe in my newly-presented cabinet.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

On reaching home, he sat down at once at the table, sipped his cabbage-soup up quickly, and swallowed a bit of beef with onions, never noticing their taste, and gulping down everything with flies and anything else which the Lord happened to send at the moment.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Make yourself easy, we are quite alone,” said Andrea; “besides, we are conversing in Italian.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He spoke little, and was quiet and shy as before.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But under the influence of their degraded fortunes, both officers and men appeared better disposed to await the approach of their formidable antagonists, within their works, than to resist the progress of their march, by emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne, and striking a blow on their advance.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Armed to the teeth, the Creole now goes in state, surrounded by his canine janizaries, whose terrific bayings prove quite as serviceable as bayonets in keeping down the surgings of revolt.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

After all this had taken place we broke up our quarters at Sempoalla and began our march towards Mexico, leaving Juan de Escalante behind, as governor of Vera Cruz, who received particular instructions to protect our allies.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

On reaching home, he sat down at once at the table, supped his cabbage soup up quickly, and swallowed a bit of beef with onions, never noticing their taste, and gulping down everything with flies and anything else which the Lord happened to send at the moment.
— from Taras Bulba, and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

She came at her usual step, a happy mean between quick and slow, accompanied by a hatless serving-woman carrying a music-roll.
— from Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Your questions are stupid and babyish.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

The eponymous hero, who chooses to be known merely by his initial, creates quite a sensation at Bath, as he is believed to be a nobleman travelling incognito.
— from Charles Lamb by Walter Jerrold

"Well, I hope I shall not get quarrelsome at school again, but I wish I was in a large school.
— from Emilie the Peacemaker by Geldart, Thomas, Mrs.

The formal qualities are simple attributes, but the operative are to be carefully divided into original and derivated.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire

The General, like a good soldier, quietly and submissively acquiesced; but Mr. Seward, a man of expedients and some conceit, was unwilling and unprepared to surrender the first place in the Administration, and virtually publish the fact by an Executive mandate which upset his promised and preferred arrangements.
— from The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various