Thus it is that every ten years they have a new great man who's going to efface all the others.
— from On Love by Stendhal

No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

We want you to have a nice restful visit at Windy Corner, with no worriting.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

This did trouble me; for though there be no reason, yet to have a nobleman’s mouth open against a man may do a man hurt; so I endeavoured to have found him out and spoke with him, but could not.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

exclaimed the youth; “the Hurons are not here; we may make good the caverns, we may oppose their landing.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

O you that hold A nobler office upon earth Than arms, or power of brain, or birth Could give the warrior kings of old, Victoria, 2 ­ since your Royal grace To one of less desert allows This laurel greener from the brows Of him that utter'd nothing base; And should your greatness, and the care
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

It was on the twenty-seventh of July, in the year twelve hundred and ninety-nine of the Christian æra, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia;
— 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

Either name was most appropriate, their large, round, clear eyes being really make-believe ones, for, as I have told you, they had absolutely no sense of sight; while on the other hand, the fact that they were deaf, dumb, and blind, and lived in underground homes, made them well entitled to the name of Ant People.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

he whispered in French, “do you know I have made up my mind about Sónya?” “Have you told her?” asked Natásha, suddenly beaming all over with joy.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Do you think her altered?" "No—yes!" "By the bye, how long is it really since you first knew her?" "Eight years—just eight years.
— from The Crown of Life by George Gissing

“Yea, thou hast assuredly narrowly escaped,” agreed another, and, as they turned to ride back with me, they related news of how, on the advance of the Khalifa’s troops towards Sokoto, the iron cymbals of war had been silenced, for the Dervishes had been attacked and routed by the Kanouri and Tuaregs in the swamps outside Massenya, after which it was believed the survivors had returned in confusion to Omdurman.
— from The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return by William Le Queux

I thought some of them would be good friends to you, maybe, and help you to have a nice time; but they are not of the right sort, it seems.
— from Little Fishers: and Their Nets by Pansy

I therefore recommend to you to have a number of copies struck off and distributed.
— from The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper by Brock, Isaac, Sir

Will you take her a note?"
— from A Young Inventor's Pluck; or, The Mystery of the Willington Legacy by Edward Stratemeyer

“Remember, I told you those hurricanes are narrow.
— from The Radio Detectives in the Jungle by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

One day Rover lay under the apple tree in the back yard, taking his afternoon nap.
— from Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm by Helen Fuller Orton

A detention of three years, three hundred and ninety days of which has been spent in solitary confinement without communication with a soul, without even seeing his own counsel , has deranged his reason.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825 by Alexandre Dumas

But the same result was arrived at with equal empiricism by omitting the episodes of heathen dominations (Jabin and the Philistines), and only adding up the years assigned to the Judges, and the four years of Solomon's reign before he began to build the Temple, thus:—Othniel forty years, Ehud eighty years, Barak forty years, Gideon forty years, Tola twenty-three years, Jair twenty-two years, Jephthah six years, Ibzan seven years, Elom ten years, Abdon eight years, Samson twenty years = two hundred and ninety-six.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

"Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight."
— from The Opening Heavens or a Connected View of the Testimony of the Prophets and Apostles, Concerning the Opening Heavens, Compared With Astronomical Observations, and of the Present and Future Location of the New Jerusalem, the Paradise of God by Joseph Bates