Have you ever heard of the wasting effects of fever being reasonably and intelligibly repaired by fortifying the exhausted patient with brandy, wine, ammonia, and quinine?
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

"'When do you expect her?' says I. "'She sails on the Royal William, the 20th of June,' says he, 'and so she should be here by mid-July.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“How do you explain him to yourself, Rodya?
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Did you ever hear of the extraordinary circumstances under which your father became a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya?" It was on a lazy summer afternoon, as Abinash and I sat together in the compound of my home, that he put this intriguing question.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

May the children of your enemies have an inclination to fight against you; and may they be so hardy as to come to arms, and to assault you in battle, for they will not return with victory, nor will their return be agreeable to their children and wives.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

El hermano de mi padre es mi tío y el hermano de mi madre es también mi tío.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

The sixth return, in the year eleven hundred and six, is recorded by the chronicles of Europe and China: and in the first fervor of the crusades, the Christians and the Mahometans might surmise, with equal reason, that it portended the destruction of the Infidels.
— 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

18 If you examine his countenance, you will distinguish a high forehead, large shaggy eyebrows, an aquiline nose, thin lips, a regular set of white teeth, and a fair complexion, that blushes more frequently from modesty than from anger.
— 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

That was a case of five seconds too; that’s too much like your eternal harmony, and Mahomet was an epileptic.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The damn police are on your trail; The nicest girl you ever had Has now commenced to weep and wail: Look out here comes the damn police, The damn police, The damn police, Look out here comes the damn police, They’ll get you every time.”
— from Liliom: A Legend in Seven Scenes and a Prologue by Ferenc Molnár

He is young, ergo he is in love; he has talent, ergo he is modest—modest and ingenuous."
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

Your example has a tremendous influence on the young men of this village.
— from The Turning of Griggsby: Being a Story of Keeping up with Dan'l Webster by Irving Bacheller

A moment since, you were nearer to having me in a tight place, Jules—er—Mr. Vane, than you ever have been, or than you're ever likely to be again.
— from The Transgression of Andrew Vane: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

I wish you every happiness.”
— from Serge Panine — Complete by Georges Ohnet

And yet each has in his part a certain scope for individual expansion, for the exercise of liberty.
— from Old Country Life by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

"Apart she lived, and still she rests alone: Yon earthly heap awaits no flattering stone."
— from Delusion; or, The Witch of New England by Eliza Buckminster Lee

Did you ever hear, that after calculating the square of the progress of the moon in its orbit during the space of a minute, and dividing that square by the diameter of that orbit, he found the quotient to be fifteen feet?
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 06 by Voltaire

Have you ever heard one?"
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 03, March 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various