“He was honest and brave,” said the old man, and turned away.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Kim's business, said the old man as they ate cakes together, was to get all the wisdom of the Sahibs and then he would see.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

But the operation of instinct is more sure and simple than that of reason: it is much easier to ascertain the appetites of a quadruped than the speculations of a philosopher; and the savage tribes of mankind, as they approach nearer to the condition of animals, preserve a stronger resemblance to themselves and to each other.
— 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

"That's right, my son," said the old man, and took a long darning-needle and made a knob of sealing-wax on it at the candle, "and there is a sword for thee to take with thee on the way."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

“By the virtue of this staff,” said the old man, “and the authority which it gives me to do and say that which is convenient, I do command, order, and summon you to appear to-morrow, at the eleventh hour at the office of my lord the corregidor of this village of Madrid, in order that, standing before him humbly, and with befitting reverence, you may listen to whatever he may have to say, or if necessary, may yield yourself up to receive the castigation of any crimes which you may have committed, whether trivial or enormous.
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

If he perseveres, it will become not merely insipid, but positively repulsive; and, should he struggle through one meal and then another, without any other food between, he will find it, in the course of time (varying with constitution and previous alimentation), positively nauseous.
— from The Chemistry of Cookery by W. Mattieu (William Mattieu) Williams

You seem to have a scientific turn of mind, and that always appeals to an intelligent German.
— from Over There with the Canadians at Vimy Ridge by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

What did you say, Ed?' says the old man, and turns around.
— from Carter, and Other People by Don Marquis

The same treatment of Mohammedanism, as that accorded by Harnack to Christianity would, as Loisy remarks, deduce from it the same humanitarian deism as that now fashionable at Berlin.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

I made out that this was because she was conscious of no standards save those of money, and there, as she would have said, she could 'deliver the goods.'
— from The Preliminaries, and Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer

We are again compelled, by want of space, to omit many Articles that are in type; among others, one by Mr. Hampson, on King Alfred's Geography of Europe ; Extracts from Accounts of St. Antholin's , The Rev. Dr. Todd On the Etymology of Armagh ; as well as many NOTES, QUERIES, and REPLIES; and our acknowledgments of COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 by Various

"Very well, my son," said the old man, and taking a long darning needle, he put a knob of sealing-wax on the end, saying, "Here is a sword to take with you on your journey."
— from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

In Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet, Manchuria, Formosa, and in some of the islands off southeastern Asia, living remnants of the same type of man as the American aborigines are to this day encountered, and it is here in the farthest northwest where actual passings of parties of natives between the Asiatic coast and the Bering Sea islands and between the latter and the American coasts have always, since these parts were known, been observed and are still of common occurrence.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička