Mercédès remained, therefore, by his bedside, and M. Morrel went away, making a sign to the Catalan that he had left his purse on the chimney-piece; but, availing himself of the doctor’s order, the old man would not take any sustenance; at length (after nine days of despair and fasting), the old man died, cursing those who had caused his misery, and saying to Mercédès, ‘If you ever see my Edmond again, tell him I die blessing him.’”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He saluted me eagerly, and then he said:— C EPHALUS , S OCRATES .
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

He saluted me eagerly, and then he said:— You don't come to see me, Socrates, as often as you ought: If I were still able to go and see you I would not ask you to come to me.
— from The Republic by Plato

Nature could not support my emotions, and took her refuge in insensibility.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

There was battle and murder and sudden death—it was marvelous how they ever heard about so many entertaining and thrilling happenings; the stories must be all true, for surely no man could have made such things up, and besides, there were pictures of them all, as real as life.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

He was once secreted in a dry cistern, which he had scarcely left before he was betrayed by the treachery of a female slave; 141 and he was once concealed in a still more extraordinary asylum, the house of a virgin, only twenty years of age, and who was celebrated in the whole city for her exquisite beauty.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He was once secreted in a dry cistern, which he had scarcely left before he was betrayed by the treachery of a female slave; and he was once concealed in a still more extraordinary asylum, the house of a virgin, only twenty years of age, and who was celebrated in the whole city for her exquisite beauty.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

No steamboat captain who wanted only a single man ever attempted to hire half of the Carmi Chums at a time—as easy would it have been to have hired half of the Siamese Twins.
— from Romance of California Life Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous by John Habberton

The second Henry Estienne, who composed a Greek-Latin lexicon, died in poverty at a hospital in Lyons; the last of the family, the third Robert Estienne, met a similar miserable end at the Hôtel Dieu in Paris.
— from Paris and Its Story by Thomas Okey

But he dared not; he had had such marvellous escapes already that he clung to the hope that some miracle might save him yet.
— from The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey

Judging from his tattered garments, and limping gait, his story must eclipse all that have gone before.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

This may be partly explained by the attraction of similar molecules even after their having passed into combination with others.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Women with sieves in hand play them, full of seed, millet, etc., above their heads as dancing-girls the tambourine, in an effort to scatter the chaff on the breeze.
— from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward

For instance, in a battle, it may happen that my hand may be deceived by some mistake into turning my weapon against my comrade, and sparing my enemy as though he were on my side; but this will not often take place, and will not take place through any fault of mine, for my object is to strike the enemy, and defend my countryman.
— from L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"You are not going to mamma's room," said Missy, earnestly, "at this hour of the night?
— from Missy: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris