In the afternoon of the same day, as Mr Verloc, coming with a start out of the last of a long series of dozes before the parlour fire, declared his intention of going out for a walk, Winnie said from the shop: “I wish you would take that boy out with you, Adolf.”
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Mr. J. P. Mansel Weale also made some observations on the natives, and procured for me a curious document, namely, the opinion, written in English, of Christian Gaika, brother of the Chief Sandilli, on the expressions of his fellow-countrymen.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

2722 Now Nio, one of the Sporades, inaccurately called by Stephanus one of the Cyclades.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

He stepped out of the shadow.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

A son of Odin; the best of skalds.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The quaint notion that if Palamedes was the inventor of number Agamemnon could not have counted his feet; the art by which we are made to believe that this State of ours is not a dream only; the gravity with which the first step is taken in the actual creation of the State, namely, the sending out of the city all who had arrived at ten years of age, in order to expedite the business of education by a generation, are also truly Platonic.
— from The Republic by Plato

“Will you combat the people in that suit of armour, my lord?” said one of the delegates smiling, but in a tone of kindness and respect.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He says that nothing can do the King more disservice, nor please the standing officers of the ship better than these silly commanders that now we have, for they sign to anything that their officers desire of them, nor have judgment to contradict them if they would.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Where is my Pamela?—Why, father, said one of them, we beg your pardon; but she is gone home to you: How long have you been come from home?—O!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Some of the cities fell under the tyranny of Macedonian garrisons; others under that of usurpers springing out of their own confusions.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Yet David's instructions to destroy a man of no importance, whom he had once in a difficult position sworn to spare, out of the grave, by the hand of his son, goes beyond the limit of all that we can elsewhere find in those times and feelings.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Max Duncker

This is certain: he has suffered one of the Mexicans to leave his cell, and communicate with Xicotencal: it is certain, also, that this cur of Tlascala will leave the camp before day-dawn; and how many of his warriors will follow after him, that I leave you to conjecture.
— from The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. I. by Robert Montgomery Bird

Yes, they would all be coming back, some one of them at least; or, if not, there would at least be the Señora and the kicking goats.
— from The White Plumes of Navarre: A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

"The paper is good," answered Frederick, drawing him swiftly out of the house.
— from Agatha Webb by Anna Katharine Green

The schools themselves have been altered and modified from time to time, as their necessity seemed to indicate; though under the general management of the Board of Education, they have been in the care of the school officers of the wards in which they are located, and while in some cases they received the proper attention, in others they were either wholly, or in part, neglected.
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

‘We are a busy people, sir,’ said one of the captains, who was from the West, ‘and have no time for reading mere notions.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

"If one of these long mountain-ridges had a peak so high and steep that a fox couldn't in any way climb up to it, then we should have a good sleeping-place," said one of them.
— from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf

With these words she disappeared, and hardly had she done so than a huge wild boar started out of the thicket near and made straight for the Prince.
— from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang