Wherefore, if Titus had either demolished a larger part of the wall immediately, or had come in, and, according to the law of war, had laid waste what was left, his victory would not, I suppose, have been mixed with any loss to himself.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

When I told him every detail he gave it up and thought only of saving his own skin.”
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is, then, nothing in the observation which has just been reported which should be contrary to the considerations which I have expressed on this subject; and which especially proves that the animals of which it treats have existed during the whole period of nature.
— from Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

To think of her being hungry, when there is enough wasted in this house every day to feed her!
— from Bessie's Fortune: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

Mr. Stevens, conjecturing his business—that he had gone to see my husband respecting the ginseng adventure, went immediately to his establishment, dismissed his hands, called his carriage, and fled with his cash for Canada, and I have never heard anything concerning him since.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith

Professor Maxon was impatient to hear every detail that von Horn obtained from Muda Saffir and the various Dyaks that were interviewed at the first long-house and along the stretch of river they covered.
— from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The scenery there is certainly beautiful, but Turner took such liberties with it that he entirely destroyed the portraiture, the locality of the spot.
— from Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Henry Venn Lansdown

what is this?" he exclaimed, drawing a white heap from under his feet.
— from Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai

In a word, Franklin was a born teacher of men, and what he did in this way in these his earlier days gives him rank among the most distinguished moralists who have ever lived.
— from Benjamin Franklin by John Torrey Morse

The Elms—why, no respectable person—I should think not even the Vidlers and the Drivers——" "That is what I tells her, miss,—that's exactly what I tells her—nobody—much less madam at the Warren, or the young ladies as you're so fond of: that's what I tells her every day."
— from A Country Gentleman and His Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant