above lies Baudin, a Representative of the People, killed while defending the People; Baudin the Representative of you all, mark that well!
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Abulfeda says: "The Ocean turns northward along the east of China, and then expands in the same direction till it passes China, and comes opposite to the Rampart of Yájúj and Májúj;" whilst the same geographer's definition of the boundaries of China exhibits that country as bounded on the west by the Indo-Chinese wildernesses; on the south, by the seas; on the east, by the Eastern Ocean; on the north, by the land of Yájúj and Májúj , and other countries unknown.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

" "I think I shall turn round on you and accuse you of being a Goth," said Rosamond, looking at Lydgate with a smile.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Should no notification be received of your acceptance of my terms by nine o'clock A.M.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Sir, said Marhaus, wit ye well that I shall not be loath to do battle in the right of you and your land with the best knight of the Table Round; for I know them, for the most part, what be their deeds; and for to advance my deeds and to increase my worship I will right gladly go unto this journey for our right.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

“Well, someone down there might see me,” Rodolphe resumed, “then I should have to invent excuses for a fortnight; and with my bad reputation—” “Oh, you are slandering yourself,” said Emma.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

It was the removal of yet another stake from the palisade of cold manners which had kept him off.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

"My dear old friends," repeated Dr. Heidegger, "may I reckon on your aid in performing an exceedingly curious experiment?"
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Upon the fall of Joram, Ahaziah was afraid of his own life, and turned his chariot into another road, supposing he should not be seen by Jehu; but he followed after him, and overtook him at a certain acclivity, and drew his bow, and wounded him; so he left his chariot, and got upon his horse, and fled from Jehu to Megiddo; and though he was under cure, in a little time he died of that wound, and was carried to Jerusalem, and buried there, after he had reigned one year, and had proved a wicked man, and worse than his father.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[III-16] On the Antiquity of Copan, the ruins of Yucatan, and Palenque, see vol.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

"What I had in mind right now was that the Service people suggested having you look over their last report on you after your arrival.
— from Legacy by James H. Schmitz

Rejoice, oh! ye Anglo-Saxons, yet a little while.
— from Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

"There has not been so fine a poem since Pope's time," remarked Johnson to Boswell, on the very first evening after the return of young Auchinleck to London.
— from Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black

58:013:017 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 58: Hebrews by Anonymous

It is not always easy or comfortable to have knobs rubbed off you, and the process sometimes involves a little friction; but we must be prepared for that.
— from The Last Million: How They Invaded France—and England by Ian Hay

We all belong to the class of ’87, excepting one member, who has read one year, and with whom our circle originated.”
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, March 1884, No. 6 by Chautauqua Institution

When you would not help yourself to food, when you reached out your arm over your shoulder so that Moussa had to put the brandy-and-soda safely into your palm, I was sure."
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason