Ever since the day when I had found her in tears she had treated me somehow lightly, at times casually, even ironically, and for some reason called me "My good sir."
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Do you know what it looks like to me? ” says Rosanna, catching me by the shoulder again.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The good which a single religious captain may do can hardly be calculated.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

“Starkey's ringleader!” “Captain, mercy!”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Then he said rather crossly: “Margaret, you wait in the dry.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

“I wanted to tell you something romantic concerning myself, but you are—geography!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

SYN: Ruler, controller, manager, master, leader, guide.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

In the various fortune of their piratical adventures, some Russian chiefs might allow themselves to be sprinkled with the waters of baptism; and a Greek bishop, with the name of metropolitan, might administer the sacraments in the church of Kiow, to a congregation of slaves and natives.
— 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 that shall see men [4622] swear and forswear, lie and bear false witness, to advantage themselves, prejudice others, hazard goods, lives, fortunes, credit, all, to be revenged on their enemies, men so unspeakable in their lusts, unnatural in malice, such bloody designments, Italian blaspheming, Spanish renouncing, &c., may well ask where is charity?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Shooting real Christian men's quite another thing.
— from The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns. Volume 1 (of 2) by William Alexander Caruthers

R. S. "Scott" Rainey, commercial manager of the Puget Sound Telephone Company and a citizen deputy, was called and examined at some length before it was discovered that he was not an endorsed witness.
— from The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Walker C. Smith

For the Lords D'Assier, Chemant, one-eyed Mailly, St. Ayl, Villeneufue-la-Guyart, Master Gabriel, physician of Savillan, Rabelais, Cohuau, Massuau, Majorici, Bullou, Cercu, alias Bourgmaistre, Francis Proust, Ferron, Charles Girard, Francis Bourre, and many other friends and servants to the deceased, all dismayed, gazed on each other without uttering one word; yet not without foreseeing that France would in a short time be deprived of a knight so accomplished and necessary for its glory and protection, and that heaven claimed him again as its due.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by François Rabelais

I see, to my genuine joy, that I may count you amongst the small number of the friends who by the weight of their sympathy richly compensate me for the absence of popular acclamation.
— from Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Franz Liszt

"Been for a swim?" "Rather!" cried Molly.
— from The Gland Stealers by Bertram Gayton

‘She ran counter,’ Mr. Kegan Paul says, in the Memoir , p. v., ‘to the customs of society, yet not wantonly or lightly, but with forethought, in order to carry out a moral theory gravely and religiously adopted.’
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson