‘Do you know anything more,’ said I, standing composedly before her—she had patted me on the shoulder, and sat down in my chair—‘of that attachment of Agnes?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

We meet together and sit in silence.... Come, anything!”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The subordinate sentence in such combinations is said to have Relative time.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It must have been largely in his own despite that he was squeezed into something called a Readership of phonetics there.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

‘An abstruse subject, I should conceive,’ said Mr. Pickwick.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The anonymous Portuguese (Stanley, p. 31) says that the strait was called the “Strait of Victoria, because the ship ‘Victoria’ was the first that had seen it: some called it the Strait of Magalhaens because our captain was named Fernando de Magalhaens.”
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

"Wait," he said, "I shall come back.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Secondly, In some countries the expense of coinage is defrayed by the government; in others, it is defrayed by the private people, who carry their bullion to the mint, and the government even derives some revenue from the coinage.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

This 16th century pronunciation still survives in South Carolina.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

The wounded gentleman opened his all but closed eyes, and recognising Claudia said, "I see clearly, fair and mistaken lady, that it is thou that hast slain me, a punishment not merited or deserved by my feelings towards thee, for never did I mean to, nor could I, wrong thee in thought or deed."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

tres habuit dentes, pariter quos expuit omnes, ad tumulum Picens dum sedet ipse suum; collegitque sinu fragmenta novissima laxi oris et adgesta contumulavit humo.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

Before another word could be spoken the cuckoo had flown out of the open door, and was shouting its spring cry over moor and meadow.
— from Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott

The sergeant then began to examine the wall and the woodwork; he tried to insinuate his sword into some crack; there was no sign of an opening.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

To be on the safe side, I shall call it at least two thousand.
— from Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux by Cyrus Townsend Brady

STATUETTES IN SILVER CHAPEL
— from Tyrol and Its People by Clive Holland

— A process of coating glass with aluminium has been lately discovered, which, if I mistake not, may be of immense service in special cases where a strongly adherent deposit is required.
— from On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

The situation is still critical and dangerous.
— from Towards the Goal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

While, as a rule, the procedure of these courts conformed to the statutes and was formal enough, rather startling informalities sometimes characterized thei
— from The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson