By this act it is plainely to bee seene the gift of strength, the which the Holy Ghost doth giue vnto his baptized Christians, as in these religious men that were at deathes doore, yet had they strength and spirit for to resist and reprehende them that could take away their liues.
— from The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 2 (of 2) by Juan González de Mendoza

" "If I thought for a moment there was a doubt do you think I would have acted as I did?" said Florence; "but now that things have come to a crisis I wonder if I greatly care.
— from A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School by L. T. Meade

Say, that was a dandy; did you see it?"
— from Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock

"You don't expect to get a windfall like that without any drawback, do you?"
— from The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

There was a dreadful, dulled, yet crazed, look in the very way she held the jerking body.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives