Nam oppressi (Athenienses) 5 Mithridatis armis homines miserrimae condicionis cum ab inimicis tenerentur , oppugnabantur ab amicis et animos extra moenia, corpora necessitati servientes intra muros habebant.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

So up; and going by coach with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to St. James’s, they tell me that Sir W. Compton, who it is true had been a little sickly for a week or fortnight, but was very well upon Friday at night last at the Tangier Committee with us, was dead—died yesterday: at which I was most exceedingly surprised, he being, and so all the world saying that he was, one of the worthyest men and best officers of State now in England; and so in my conscience he was: of the best temper, valour, abilities of mind, integrity, birth, fine person, and diligence of any one man he hath left behind him in the three kingdoms; and yet not forty years old, or if so, that is all.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Sister, I may as well go and take my bonnet off now.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

My health is declining; God only knows how soon I may be summoned before his Throne.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

The king gone, there fell many upon the two lovers and not only awakened them, but forthright without any pity took them and bound them; which when they saw, it may lightly be conceived if they were woeful and feared for their lives and wept and made moan.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

III One morning early in May I stood before the steel safe in my bedroom, trying on the golden jewelled crown.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

But the doctor says I must rest for six weeks at least.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley

Why, Miss Rosser was engaged to be married to the colonel at the time when she had been seen in Mark Driver's arms.
— from Enter Bridget by Thomas Cobb

From what the King said, monsieur, you may count upon mounting the scaffold in my stead.
— from Bardelys the Magnificent Being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini

She informed Madeline that Monsieur had sent this refreshment to Madame, as he feared that the long day’s fast would make her faint for the evening; she bore also, from Monsieur, a small three-cornered note, which Madeline laid aside until the girl had quitted the room, when she proceeded to acquaint herself with the contents.
— from The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan

I know that if he tells me to come in secret, I must come by wile; by any device to hoodwink—even Jonathan.”
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

If the Secular instructor made it a point, as he ought to do, to inculcate elementary ideas of morality, he would confine himself to explaining how far truth and duty have sanctions in considerations purely human—leaving it to teachers of religion to supplement at another time and place, what they believe to be further and higher sanctions.
— from English Secularism: A Confession Of Belief by George Jacob Holyoake

You couldn't smell the hot boiling sap all the way from the mountain-sides, but what you did smell made you think of the little bark-covered sap-houses up in the far woods, with smoke and white steam coming out from all their cracks, as though there was somebody inside magicking charms and making a great cloud to cover it, like Klingsor or the witch-ladies in the Arabian Nights.
— from The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

my dear, how often, how often I have held it so in my dreams!
— from Nancy: A Novel by Rhoda Broughton

As this presently occurred to my thoughts, so I made it my business to inquire and find him out, and to give him notice of it.
— from The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe

I was never so roughly served in my life!—by a fellow too that had taken my money!
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald