The genuinely converted.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

Yes: here's the gentleman, captain, master Kastril, I have brought to see the doctor.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

You took good care to burn it before I had examined it.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

One of the maids, a thoughtless girl, who had been on an early errand to Gimmerton, came panting up-stairs, open-mouthed, and dashed into the chamber, crying: ‘Oh, dear, dear!
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

They sailed north to the island Cyprus; and King Sigurd stayed there a while, and then went to the Greek country, and came to the land with all his fleet at Engilsnes.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

She hopes you will not omit begging Mrs. Seward to get the garden cropped for us, supposing she leaves the house too early to make the garden any object to herself.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

“The Golden Cockerel.”
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

The moans of the little patient subsided; its convulsive tossings gradually ceased; and in a few moments, as is the custom of young children after relief from pain, it sank into a profound and dewy slumber.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The definite impulse which resulted in the establishment of Tufts College may be traced to the sermon preached by Hosea Ballou, 2d., D.D., before the General Convention of Universalists, in the city of New York, September 15, 1847.
— from The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various

It is of course obvious that, if these globules could be produced by any process from inorganic elements, we should be entitled to say that the fact of a transit from the inorganic into the organic had been witnessed in that instance; the possibility of the commencement of animated creation by the ordinary laws of nature might be considered as established.
— from Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers

"It must not be lost sight of," says he in his Sketches of Jewish Life in Russia 9 "that the Russian Jews live strictly in accordance with our received laws, and they are sufficiently learned in them to know that the many cases of conscience which are of constant occurrence cannot be decided understandingly by any one who has but a superficial knowledge of the Talmud and of the decisions of the later doctors of the Law, but that it requires the study of an entire lifetime to become thoroughly acquainted with those stupendous monuments of learning and deep research in the great concerns of life."
— from The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin

The German Chancellor announces that Germany has made proposals for peace.
— from A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War by R. P. P. Rowe

The greater part of these great chiefs bore the sovereign title of Tlatoani, or a similar one.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

We have seen one of the gorgeous coverlets of Louis XIV., but it was wrought by the young ladies of St. Cyr under the direction of Mme. de Maintenon; and there is another in the Hôtel de Cluny that once belonged to Francis I. The grand-daughter of Don Luis de Haro, the sole heiress of the house, married the Duke of Alba, carrying with her as a dowry the vast possessions of Olivares, Guzman, and Del Carpio.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Unfortunately her father awoke while this was going on, and hearing a noise in the garden, came to the window, and at once perceiving that all those who were there were Christians, raising a prodigiously loud outcry, he began to call out in Arabic, "Christians, Christians!
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 14 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Mrs. Champney removed her glasses and swung them leisurely back and forth on their gold chain.
— from Flamsted quarries by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

We consider it one of the greatest condescensions of our Heavenly Father in pointing you out to us.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

Imagine this painted market full of chattering people, the little shops gay with piles of beautiful fruit and vegetables, the graceful columns and dark porches adding beauty.
— from Buried Cities, Volume 1: Pompeii by Jennie Hall