" "Never a whit," quoth merry Robin, "for I tell thee that we of Sherwood are more loyal to our lord the King than those of thine order.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

She stood still a moment, listening, and at last she heard Caspar Goodwood walk out of the sitting-room and close the door behind him.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Moreover it was all the more natural in this case, owing to the existing disposition of the people in favour of the Alexandrian kings; for the inhabitants of Coele-Syria are somehow always more loyally disposed to this family than to any other.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

But know that in the Soule Are many lesser Faculties that serve Reason as chief; among these Fansie next Her office holds; of all external things, Which the five watchful Senses represent, She forms Imaginations, Aerie shapes, Which Reason joyning or disjoyning, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

# His living room looked like one of those news-segments they show about abandoned kids who spend a month locked in before they're rescued by the neighbors: frozen meal boxes, empty beer cans and juice bottles, moldy cereal bowls and piles of newspapers.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

5. I saw a most lovely Sir Joshua at Christie’s a week ago.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

These bodily sufferings are much less cruel, much less painful, than other forms of suffering, and they rarely lead to self-destruction.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He found a girl with all her senses, and more land than Genevieve, and he deserted the poor creature.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Howbeit, these troublesome Spirits are most likely not so bad as we find them here depicted; for, is it not a well-known fact, also mentioned by Thomas Nash, Gentleman, that they love music?
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

It was something of a shock to see the stranger rise from his seat a moment later, and begin making those preparations which showed that he also was approaching his destination; but, although he alighted at Nosely Station, he had disappeared from sight while the girls were still looking after their luggage, and when they took their seats in the carriage which was waiting to convey them to the Court there was no sign of him on platform or road.
— from The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

With the exception of the very slight apparent change made at Fontainebleau by the presence of these gentlemen, no remarkable incident, none at least in my knowledge, came to disturb the sad and monotonous life of the Emperor in the palace.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

But the Convent of Pillenreuth was a right comfortable shelter, and my lady the Abbess a woman of high degree and fine, hospitable manners; and the table was made longer in a winking, and laid with white napery and plates and all befitting.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers

And then—one day when I'd been here a little while—I went to his lodgings to give him some money I'd been saving up for him—and I found him gone—gone—without a word—without a message—disappeared, so to speak, and me left behind to be miserable."
— from Brooke's Daughter: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

LaHume's face was a study as Miss Lawrence made this rather startling announcement.
— from John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life by Frederick Upham Adams

Well, one day, by chance, in an old file of the Petit Journal , I saw the case of an old man named Mesnier; he had been strangled for no apparent reason, and an important witness said that he had seen a man leaving Mesnier’s room shortly after the time the tragedy must have taken place, and he said that he would have sworn that this man was Müller, only for the fact that Müller was known to be dead.”
— from The Cottage on the Fells by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

The other chaps they jined in' and laid on a considerable soft sodder about my letters in the Express—but they did it slick, I can tell you, smoothed it down nice and ily, till you couldn't jest tell exactly whether it was soft sodder or not.
— from High Life in New York A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Don’t trouble to stare at my left leg, if it is shorter than the other.
— from The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's: A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed