Till recently I had no notion that actors’ salaries ever reached such a figure.”
— from Spinster of This Parish by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

"Only a short time ago your men captured my war-drums; but, as the Arabs say, 'Er rigal sharrada urrada'
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

of the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Centuries) assigning them to Boethius as their author, scholars, especially recent scholars, have felt the gravest possible doubts of their being really his, doubts which have of late ripened into an almost complete certainty that he was not their author.
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

"Some men's thoughts are so easily read!" says she.
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

And here the old gentleman paused, fairly for want of breath, his purple cheeks expanding and contracting, whilst, instead of words, he emitted a series of little puffs; and John, whilst asking him to take a seat, entertained rather strong doubts of his visitor’s sanity.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

A deer, for instance, that cannot leap out of a mid-afternoon nap, soar a fair ten feet in the air, and come down with legs in the right position for running comes to a sad end, rather soon, in a puma's claws.
— from The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

These 276 four relays—the left-hand four shown in Fig. 130 —are all acted upon by the Greenwich signal and therefore act simultaneously, each relay sending a portion of the current of its battery through each wire of its group.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir