On the whole we arrive at the conclusion that the Apology is true to the character of Socrates, but we cannot show that any single sentence in it was actually spoken by him.
— from Apology by Plato

Then anon Sir Dinadan came to Sir Tristram and said: Sir, I know thee better than thou weenest; but here I promise thee my troth I will never come against thee more, for I promise thee that sword of thine shall never come on mine helm.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The son then advancing, said “Sir, if you please, I beg that I may treat Miss.” “We’ll settle that another time,” answered Mr. Branghton, and put down a guinea.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

It is strange that anything should suffer in fire and yet live, but stranger that it should live in fire and not suffer.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“Why should you do that?” said the attorney; “sit still, I will do it.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

My apprehension of what she was doing sustained me so that after some seconds I felt I was ready for more.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

To such a tremulous wisp constantly re-forming itself on the stream, to a single sharp impression, with a sense in it, a relic more or less fleeting, of such moments gone by, what is real in our life fines itself down.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

They go to separate churches, they live in separate sections, they are strictly separated in all public gatherings, they travel separately, and they are beginning to read different papers and books.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

dápak n k.o. fish similar to a spotted snapper in shape, but much smaller.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As the manufacturer, when he makes a contract, has no security that a combination may not arise amongst the workmen, which may render that contract a loss instead of a benefit; besides taking precautions to prevent them from becoming acquainted with it, he must also add to the price at which he could otherwise sell the article, some small increase to cover the risk of such an occurrence.
— from On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage

And such an achievement is so stupendous that a single statue is enough to make a man immortal, as Figaro, Lovelace, and Manon Lescaut have immortalized Beaumarchais, Richardson, and the Abbe Prevost.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

“Why do you speak in a strange voice?” said she; and she trembled as she said it.
— from The Lonesome Trail by John G. Neihardt

When cooked pass the sauce through a sieve, skim it, add a little more sauce, and pour it over the pigeons.
— from The Cook's Decameron A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes by Waters, W. G., Mrs.

Then she turned and sped, sobbing, into the house.
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

Antoinette and she sometimes went to school together and sometimes separate; it was rather more lonely when they went together.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner