“You infernal bundle of hair and rags, do you dare to stand there and tell me how to run my own affairs?” roared Ward, thoroughly incensed.
— from The Rainy Day Railroad War by Holman Day

There are excellent portraits of Gerald Wellesley, Dean of Windsor; whilst Archbishop Longley—who surely occupied more ecclesiastical Sees than any previous prelate—has signed himself as Ripon, Durham, York, and Canterbury to a striking portrait of himself.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

These in the flame with ceaseless groans deplore The ambush of the horse, that open'd wide A portal for that goodly seed to pass, Which sow'd imperial Rome; nor less the guile Lament they, whence of her Achilles 'reft Deidamia yet in death complains.
— from The vision of hell. By Dante Alighieri. Translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. and illustrated with the seventy-five designs of Gustave Doré. by Dante Alighieri

"Harry, mount one of the saddled horses and rush down yonder for Doc Gitney," Tom ordered.
— from The Young Engineers in Colorado; Or, At Railroad Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

So, daughter,’ he added restlessly, ‘don your hood; that ruff will serve for another day.’
— from The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

But with the conditions as they are in this state are you going to be polite, merely, while the hearses are rumbling down your streets?
— from The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot by Holman Day

When you first cut a man's throat, and thereafter call him a rascal, do you suppose that your accusation will affect the man's reputation?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

“Is he all right, daddy?” “Yes,––back to normal.”
— from The Spoilers of the Valley by Robert Watson