Most of the towns of Mesopotamia yielded by surrender, (Abulpharag.
— 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

“Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

,” said the old man, “you’d keep up better style than some of them.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

The most dreadful misfortunes, the most frightful sufferings, the abandonment of all those who loved me, the persecution of those who did not know me, formed the trials of my youth; when suddenly, from captivity, solitude, misery, I was restored to light and liberty, and became the possessor of a fortune so brilliant, so unbounded, so unheard-of, that I must have been blind not to be conscious that God had endowed me with it to work out his own great designs.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

As for Egremont, he had been almost born amid the ruins of Marney Abbey; its solemn relics were associated with his first and freshest fancies; every footstep was as familiar to him as it could have been to one of the old monks; yet never without emotion could he behold these unrivalled remains of one of the greatest of the great religious houses of the North.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

It is rumoured in the town that once, many years ago, a boy appeared who really never had done these things—or at all events, which was all that was required or could be expected, had never been known to do them—and thus won the crown of glory.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Complex ideas are either of Modes, Substances, or Relations. COMPLEX IDEAS, however compounded and decompounded, though their number be infinite, and the variety endless, wherewith they fill and entertain the thoughts of men; yet I think they may be all reduced under these three heads:—1.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Where'er that place be priests ca' hell, Where a' the tones o' misery yell, An' ranked plagues their numbers tell, In dreadfu' raw, Thou, Toothache, surely bear'st the bell, Amang them a'!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

If you was being courted by any man as 'ud make you his wife, and I'd known you was fond of him and meant to have him, I should have no right to speak a word to you about it; but when I see you're being made love to by a gentleman as can never marry you, and doesna think o' marrying you, I feel bound t' interfere for you.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Joking apart though, old man, you’ve got your Queen Tamara in your own neighbourhood. . . .”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And, though I cannot but be mightily troubled that you should have had so many wrong and unjust thoughts of me, yet next to the return of good offices, such as from a sincere good-will I have ever done you, I receive your acknowledgment of the contrary as the kindest thing you have done me, since it gives me hopes I have not lost a friend I so much valued.
— from The Life of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster

A little trap of mine, you know.
— from Egholm and his God by Johannes Buchholtz

Have yonder Pale-faces, whom the tomahawks of my young men spared, been led before thee by the Great Spirit, in the dark night?"
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

He is, as Professor Murray has repeatedly testified, the most truthful of men, yet he never opens his mouth without deceiving us.
— from New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various

Let me send for a cup of tea or maybe you'd like a high-ball...."
— from My Actor-Husband: A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

When they reached the house, they found Eleanor gone to bed, and the gentlemen sitting on the verandah together, still talking of Mr. Yelverton's family history, in which the lawyer was professionally interested.
— from The Three Miss Kings: An Australian Story by Ada Cambridge

“That only means you know Shakespeare very well, however.
— from The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Katharine Ellis Barrett

"Thank you, sir; you have been the best of friends to us both, and to our mother, you and Mrs. Travilla," said Tom, with emotion: "and this is just what Sally and I have been wishing we could do.
— from Elsie's children by Martha Finley

'Well, then, my dear Miss Betsy,' said she, in the most flattering accent, 'I will tell you the only method you can take, and I am glad I have been so lucky to hit upon it: you shall let me go and make Mr. Staple a visit, as of my own accord; I shall take care not to drop a syllable that may give him room to think you know of my coming; but yet, as he may suppose I am enough in your secrets to be mistress of this, or at least not altogether a stranger to it, he will, doubtless, say something to me concerning the matter; but if he should not, it will be easy for me, in the way of discourse, and as it were by chance, to express myself in such terms as will entirely clear you, and rid him of all the apprehensions he is under, of your being in love with Mr. Trueworth.'
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood