‘It’s a very remarkable circumstance,’ said Brass, laying down his pen; ‘really, very remarkable.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

That radiated vaguely round about it, overflowing into all the preceding and following days.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

[86] "Of course not," Alice replied very readily: "but that's because it stays the same year for such a long time together." "Which is just the case with mine ," said the Hatter.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

Mr. R. V. Russell prefers to connect them with the Bhars alone, on the ground that the Gonds, according to the best traditions, entered the Central Provinces from the south, and made no effective settlement in Bundelkhand, the headquarters of the Chandels.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appellation," says Mr. Snagsby, breaking off with a mistrust that he may have unpolitely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, "because I have known writers that have gone into brewers' houses and done really very respectable indeed.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Could I have torn out my tongue, I would have done it, but a rough voice resounded in my ears—a rougher grasp seized me by the shoulder.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

p. 267,) quo non alter erat inter reges vitæ ratione m
— 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

The Moscow 'Russkiya Viedomosti' (Russian News) in its issue of March 23, 1918, reported that the president of the Rostov Municipal Council and the Chairman of the Don Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Party, B. C. Vasiliev, the mayor of the city, P. Petrenko, the former Chairman of the Rostov-Nakhichevan Council of Workingmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, P. Melnikov, and even M. Smirnov, at that time Chairman of the Council, have handed in a petition to the Bolshevist War-Revolutionary Council asking them to shoot them 'instead of the innocent children who are executed without law and justice.'
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

Routh, v. rowth.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

"And others spend their time in reading vain Romances," he continued.
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

Many of them are sheer falsehoods, and especially those concerning myself...... With my kindest and most cordial regards to Mrs. Bennett, I remain, very respectfully, your friend, James Buchanan .
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

However, toward the end of the fifteenth century the public in general had broken through Byzantine, Gothic, and Lombardic esthetic domination and breathed the clearer air of the Renaissance, becoming imbued with a desire for gentler, more beautiful things; and the old town of Limoges, ever awake {188} to the commerce of demand, again started up her enameling ovens and went at the art with renewed vigor, retaining a supremacy that has handed down to us priceless treasures of the sort, exquisite and satisfying.
— from The Pleasures of Collecting by Gardner C. Teall

"Your lordship is right, very right," exclaimed Sir Roger Millington; "but I do not see--" "Listen to me, Sir Roger, and you shall see," replied the peer: "I doubt not that I shall be able to convict him; but if my recollections are right, and can be supported by yours, his conviction is certain.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

That Gallery he had long hoped to have left to a generous public, but the recent Vandalic revolution in France had cut up his revenue by the roots, Flanders, Holland, and Germany being his chief marts.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury