Themistokles, under pretext of seeking for it, searched every man, and found great stores of money hidden in their luggage, which he confiscated, and thus was able to supply the crews of the ships with abundance of necessaries.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

A priori analysis of both brain-action and conscious action shows us that if the latter were efficacious it would, by its selective emphasis, make amends for the indeterminateness of the former; whilst the study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“She expects me at four o'clock.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Fax services weigh less than your computer's printer —————————————————————————— Many online services let you send electronic mail as fax messages.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Soft, Sir. Eve. Mary, and faire too, then.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

But Don Quixote, supported by his intrepid heart, leaped on Rocinante, and bracing his buckler on his arm, brought his pike to the slope, and said, “Friend Sancho, know that I by Heaven’s will have been born in this our iron age to revive in it the age of gold, or the golden as it is called; I am he for whom perils, mighty achievements, and valiant deeds are reserved; I am, I say again, he who is to revive the Knights of the Round Table, the Twelve of France and the Nine Worthies; and he who is to consign to oblivion the Platirs, the Tablantes, the Olivantes and Tirantes, the Phoebuses and Belianises, with the whole herd of famous knights-errant of days gone by, performing in these in which I live such exploits, marvels, and feats of arms as shall obscure their brightest deeds.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

' 'We shall, indeed!' said Emily, moving as fast as she was able towards her apartment.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

CONFIDENCE THAT A RETURN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO POWER WILL START EVERY MILL AND FACTORY IN THIS COUNTRY, WITHOUT THE AID OR CONSENT OF ANY OTHER NATION OR NATIONS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
— from Emerson on Sound Money A Speech, 1896 by Willis George Emerson

But it may be we shall even meet again, for it is still to be told how the gnomes robbed the fairies, and of the vengeance that the fairies took, and how even the gods themselves were troubled thereby in their sleep; and how the King of Ool insulted the troubadours, thinking himself safe among his scores of archers and hundreds of halberdiers, and how the troubadours stole to his towers by night, and under his battlements by the light of the moon made that king ridiculous for ever in song.
— from The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany

"Do you mean to say that Mad Martin, the gardener, is really Mr. Dean?" said Edith, making a final attempt to baffle Gebb.
— from The Lady from Nowhere: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

"But speak, then, my clumsy savant," exclaimed Michel Ardan, "for you make me boil with impatience!"
— from From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne

I’d roll round town, givin’ ’em to understand I was master, take ’em out drivin’ in a buggy Sunday evenin’, makin’ a fool o’ meself fine.
— from An Ocean Tramp by William McFee

Such English mansions and furniture as remained after the Wars of the Roses were all of the Gothic type; and with no other models available, it was but natural that the first efforts of English workmen, after art began to revive, should be Gothic in feeling.
— from The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 04, April 1900 The Petit Trianon: Versailles; English Carved Fireplaces by Various

{4} Jennings (’04), however, from extended study of the physiology of the ameba, stressing especially movement and feeding, denied that the transformation of endoplasm into ectoplasm, and vice versa, is necessary or even of frequent occurrence during movement.
— from Ameboid movement by Asa A. (Asa Arthur) Schaeffer