“I knew that,” said Monte Cristo; “she has been dead these ten years.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Before entering on the business of the meeting, General Sherman remarked substantially: "Mr. Cameron, we have met here to discuss matters and interchange views which should be known only by persons high in the confidence of the Government.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Here we met with Mr. May, and he and we to talk of several things, of building, and such like matters; and so walked to White Hall, and there I skewed my cozen Roger the Duchesse of York sitting in state, while her own mother stands by her; he had a desire, and I shewed him my Lady Castlemayne, whom he approves to be very handsome, and wonders that she cannot be as good within as she is fair without.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

My fortune, God knows, has grown worse for the service; so much for serving my country!
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The French window swung open a little wider, and a handsome white-haired old lady, with a somewhat masterful cast of features, stepped out of it on to the lawn.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The very tone of the question shook my confidence.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

I promise nothing—I shall make codicils as long as I like—and that considering the nature of such a proceeding, it is unreasonable to presume that a young man of sense and character would attempt it—ah, but the gentleman doesn't say you are a young man of sense and character, mark you that, sir!—As to my own concern with any report of such a nature, I distinctly affirm that I never made any statement to the effect that your son had borrowed money on any property that might accrue to him on Mr. Featherstone's demise—bless my heart! 'property'—accrue—demise!
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Now the men that were sent, which were in number ten, traveled all about, and made an estimation of the land, and in the seventh month came to him to the city of Shiloh, where they had set up the tabernacle.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

There is nothing now remains, before I come to vindicate Don Quixot , but a large Remark of his, upon the little or no swearing in Plays, which commonly is only a kind of an Interjection, as gad, I cod, oonz, & c. which I don't defend neither, and if any others have carelesly past the Press I'm sorry for't, for I hate them as much as he, yet because the Doctor has quoted the Statute Law against it and Players, to slander on one side, tho to reform on t'other, I will in return quote another piece of Law relating to Oaths, extreamly for his advantage, for there is only this quibbling difference between us, 'Tis a fault in us in swearing when we should not, and in him for not swearing when he should; but that now he may have occasion to say my Civilities are particular to him, I will make him do't.
— from Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Thomas D'Urfey

"There is a quiet elegance about Topsparkle which is very taking," said Mr. Chevenix, a prosperous barrister; "and when one remembers that his father made his money in the City, and that he is only one generation removed from hides and tallow—" "There you are mistaken, my dear Chevenix," interposed Asterley; "the elder Topsparkle was a drysalter."
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 2 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Whenever we ran out of The Friend office to the hotel or the printing works or the Club, we saw the same endless parade of soldiers up and down the pavements, the same motley cavalcade of mounted men in the streets.
— from War's Brighter Side The Story of The Friend Newspaper Edited by the Correspondents with Lord Roberts's Forces, March-April, 1900 by Julian Ralph

In it I saw many castles and the castles were fair, indeed.
— from Arms and the Woman by Harold MacGrath

I feel,” she added, “that this event will be fatal to me—I know I shall not live to see my child—I demand from you the only promise that can support me even under this conviction”—Melmoth interrupted her by the assurance, that these apprehensions were the inseparable concomitants of her situation, and that many mothers, surrounded by a numerous offspring, smiled as they recollected their fears that the birth of each would be fatal to them.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

Teresina fretted all night for fear something might come to you.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I smell meat cooking, and here is something that we have not seen for many a long day."
— from With Wellington in Spain: A Story of the Peninsula by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

This boiler consists of three strong metal cylinders placed in a horizontal position one above the other.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner

[126] The student may consult an interesting article by Prof. Sollas bearing on this subject.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr