On examining it carefully he recognized it as the picture he had drawn when a lad, and he wondered how it could have come here.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

The magnificent spoils of Corinth and Argos enriched the veterans of the West; the captive wife of Alaric, who had impatiently claimed his promise of Roman jewels and Patrician handmaids, was reduced to implore the mercy of the insulting foe; and many thousand prisoners, released from the Gothic chains, dispersed through the provinces of Italy the praises of their heroic deliverer.
— 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

One man, a master of a family in my neighbourhood, having had the distemper, he thought he had it given him by a poor workman whom he employed, and whom he went to his house to see, or went for some work that he wanted to have finished; and he had some apprehensions even while he was at the poor workman's door, but did not discover it fully; but the next day it discovered itself, and he was taken very in, upon which he immediately caused himself to be carried into an outbuilding which he had in his yard, and where there was a chamber over a workhouse (the man being a brazier).
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

——In what manner a plain man, with nothing but common sense, could bear up against two such allies in science,—is hard to conceive.—You may conjecture upon it, if you please,——and whilst your imagination is in motion, you may encourage it to go on, and discover by what causes and effects in nature it could come to pass, that my uncle Toby got his modesty by the wound he received upon his groin.—You may raise a system to account for the loss of my nose by marriage-articles,—and shew the world how it could happen, that I should have the misfortune to be called T RISTRAM , in opposition to my father’s hypothesis, and the wish of the whole family, Godfathers and Godmothers not excepted.—These, with fifty other points left yet unravelled, you may endeavour to solve if you have
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

People wondered how it could have been placed there, but at last a very old inhabitant told the story of the mysterious disappearance of the bodies of the late landlord’s guests, and the mystery was at length accounted for.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

While Miss Anthony was thus engaged, the State Teachers' Convention was held in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, August 3, 1853, and true to her resolve made the year previous she put aside everything else in order to attend.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

This will account for the coalition betwixt my father and Dr. Slop, in the ensuing discourse, which went a little hard against my uncle Toby.—In what manner a plain man, with nothing but common sense, could bear up against two such allies in science,—is hard to conceive.—You may conjecture upon it, if you please,—and whilst your imagination is in motion, you may encourage it to go on, and discover by what causes and effects in nature it could come to pass, that my uncle Toby got his modesty by the wound he received upon his groin.—You may raise a system to account for the loss of my nose by marriage-articles,—and shew the world how it could happen, that I should have the misfortune to be called Tristram, in opposition to my father's hypothesis, and the wish of the whole family, Godfathers and Godmothers not excepted.—These, with fifty other points left yet unravelled, you may endeavour to solve if you have
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

As for that boy, I don't know where he is, confound him,' says he, 'nor I don't much care.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

If a defendant denied doing the acts of which he is convicted, he was subject to an additional fine to the king and imprisonment.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

Then he saith, 'I will return into my house whence I came out;' and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
— from His Life: A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels by William Eleazar Barton

"Ask the Father of her spirit, and the framer of her body," said Andrew, solemnly; "ask Him into whose hands I committed her from childhood.
— from The Shepherd's Calendar. Volume I (of II) by James Hogg

Throughout his life he had made a point of “getting even” with those who had irritatingly crossed his path, or much disliked him.
— from The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Then glancing from the face of his patient to those of his old friends, “It doesn’t seem to have occurred to you to wonder how I came here so opportunely to-night,” he remarked.
— from Signing the Contract, and What It Cost by Martha Finley

That is what Turenne would be doing were he in command here.”
— from Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

10 I wonder however I could have lived without him.
— from A Rainy June, and Other Stories by Ouida

Accepting both statements, which were true, Walker replied that he purposed holding the city as long as his supplies lasted, after which he intended carrying his command on board the Nicaragua schooner-of-war Granada , and removing whithersoever he pleased.
— from By-Ways of War: The Story of the Filibusters by James Jeffrey Roche

And then to think my name—of which I have ever been so proud—belongs to the son of a man whose heart I could have torn out!
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

Society suffers all the time, and the professional criminal goes on with his occupation, interrupted only by periods of seclusion, during which he is comfortably housed and fed.
— from The Indeterminate Sentence: What Shall Be Done with the Criminal Class? by Charles Dudley Warner