She said that she was a handmaid used to grinding at the mill.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Look, you can still see the smoke from here!” answered the narrator, approaching the window.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

"What, Mr. Weevle?" says the stationer, stopping to speak.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

At the same time she saw that she had given her daughter a momentary advantage.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Others are Dependent; that is to say, Subordinate to some Soveraign Power, to which every one, as also their Representative is Subject.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

from aloft, and soon saw two sails to windward, going directly athwart our hawse.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

And on so much of what has been said as is to the purpose all the judges shall set their seals, and place the writings on the altar of Hestia.
— from Laws by Plato

Just recollect the good aunts who have not only lectured and fussed, but nursed and petted, too often without thanks, the scrapes they have helped you out of, the tips they have given you from their small store, the stitches the patient old fingers have set for you, the steps the willing old feet have taken, and gratefully pay the dear old ladies the little attentions that women love to receive as long as they live.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A curious use of the thistle occurs in the arms of the National Bank of Scotland (granted 1826), which are: "Or, the image of St. Andrew with vesture vert, and surcoat purpure, bearing before him the cross of his martyrdom argent, all resting on a base of the second, in the dexter flank a garb gules, in the sinister a ship in full sail sable, the shield surrounded with two thistles proper disposed in orle ."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

When she had recovered that precious ring, as we have before related, Angelica, knowing its value, felt proud in the power it conferred, travelled alone without fear, not without a secret shame that she had ever been obliged to seek protection in her wanderings of the Count Orlando and of Sacripant.
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

In 1593, she apologizes for sending him only a small sum: ‘The small token you shall receave from me I desire yt may serve to make you remember the tyme and my many weighty affaires, wich makes it les than else I would, and I dowt nothing but when you heare all, yow will beare with this.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Sarianna says that Squires carries about his own table.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She says that star-gazing never was good for anyone except astronomers who warn us about tides, eclipses and dangerous comets."
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

Now as he went, with fading hope, to seek The third and last to whom God bade him speak, Scarce twenty steps away whom should he meet
— from Music, and Other Poems by Henry Van Dyke

I say, seeing the Son of God, as he was in a body of flesh, did bring in salvation for sinners, and by this means, as I said before, we are saved, even by faith in his blood, righteousness, resurrections, &c.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Through this sudden stillness the submarine slipped stealthily, the hissing beneath her bows dying down to gentle sibilance.
— from The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance