I then went from shop to shop, making such purchases as were necessary to the change in his appearance.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

She intimated that, in case I was arrested and interrogated, I should be under the necessity of naming Madam de Luxembourg, and that her friendship for me required, on my part, such precautions as were necessary to prevent her being exposed.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Well, then!” said Pencroft, “are we not going back to work?
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But he kept your secret, Pamela; and would not own, that you gave any encouragement to his addresses.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The whole thing is a second Panama, and with not a quarter of the chance of success that miserable affair ever had.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

By this way of reasoning, then, a happy life may attend virtue even to the moment of execution; nay, may descend with her into Phalaris’s bull, according to Aristotle, Xenocrates, Speusippus, Polemon; and will not be gained over by any allurements to forsake her.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those who remember the city of London before the fire must remember that there was then no such place as we now call Newgate Market, but that in the middle of the street which is now called Blowbladder Street, and which had its name from the butchers, who used to kill and dress their sheep there (and who, it seems, had a custom to blow up their meat with pipes to make it look thicker and fatter than it was, and were punished there for it by the Lord Mayor); I say, from the end of the street towards Newgate there stood two long rows of shambles for the selling meat.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

But a neighbour of mine, a very ancient lady, telleth me that, according to that which she heard, when a child, both the one and the other were true; but that the latter happened, not to Gianni Lotteringhi, but to one Gianni di Nello, who abode at Porta San Piero and was no less exquisite a ninny than the other.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

[100] Centuries have bedecked and adorned the sides of this stupendous pit; and while naked sheets and planes of colour, the work of recent years, still gleam starkly, all innocent of blade and leaf, elsewhere in deserted galleries and among cliff-faces torn bare by vanished generations of men, green things have made their home and flourished with luxuriance, to the eternal drip of surface water.
— from A West Country Pilgrimage by Eden Phillpotts

He left the room and sent Pulin a written notice of dismissal.
— from Tales of Bengal by S. B. Banerjea

I had the forethought to bring such papers as were needed with me."
— from The Northern Light by E. Werner

She conducted departments of large feminine interest in several periodicals, and was noted among the "emancipated and impossible" for her papers on Whitman.
— from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel by Will Levington Comfort

" Once a woman went close to Lael, snatched a look, and stepped back, with clasped hands, crying: "'Tis the Sweet Mother herself!" Without other incident, the procession passed the gate of St. Peter, and was nearing that of Blacherne, when a flourish of trumpets announced a counter pageant coming down the street from the opposite direction.
— from The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01 by Lew Wallace

For, to inform the reader of a secret, which he had no proper opportunity of revealing before, Partridge was in truth a Jacobite, and had concluded that Jones was of the same party, and was now proceeding to join the rebels.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding