"I should like to have seen Jenny very much," said I, "for I am sure she would have told me all she could about this lady, whom I am very anxious indeed—you cannot think how anxious—to overtake.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The very girls themselves set them on: “Consurgit ad ictus, Et, quoties victor ferrum jugulo inserit, illa Delicias ait esse suas, pectusque jacentis Virgo modesta jubet converso pollice rumpi.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

De même, je vois mal le positionnement d'un appareil exclusivement dédié à la lecture, alors que nous avons les ordinateurs portables d'un côté, les téléphones mobiles de l'autre et les assistants personnels (dont les pocket PC) sur le troisième front.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and this is what died away in the gloom:— “Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans l’ordre public que voilà.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the linden; it was about eighteen feet in height.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"Indeed," said Janetta, very much astonished.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

[110] τῆς ἐκ τῶν τρόπων ἁρμονίας καὶ χάριτος οὐ λίαν ἐφάνη ζηλωτά. (Now Eusebia, the subject of my speech, was the daughter of a consul, and is the consort of an Emperor who is brave, temperate, wise, just, virtuous, mild and high-souled, who, when he acquired the throne that had belonged to his ancestors, and had won it back from him who had usurped it by violence, and desired to wed that he might beget sons to inherit his honour and power, deemed this lady worthy of his alliance, when he had already become master of almost the whole world.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

,” answered the lady, “you may say what you please, je vous mesprise de tout mon coeur.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

It gives me sincere pleasure to hear of Mrs. Knight's having had a tolerable night at last, but upon this occasion I wish she had another name, for the two nights jingle very much.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Jonathan Visits Mr. Hogg's Garden and gets a Bouquet—Puzzled about the propriety of Paying for it—Purchases a Ribbon, and starts for the Theatre.
— from High Life in New York A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

To Slim o'er , v. a. To do anything carelessly and insufficiently, S. To SLING, v. n. To walk with a long step, S. Su. G. slaeng-a , jactare, valide movere.
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson

This primacy did not, properly speaking, affect the higher spheres of government, so long as the position of officer still coincided with that of imperial official, although the equestrian career was accessible to the common soldier through the intervening link of the centurionate at all times, and thus the Illyrians early found their way into that career; as indeed, already, in the year 235, a native Thracian, Gaius Julius Varus Maximinus, in the year 248 a native Pannonian, Trajanus Decius, had in this way attained even to the purple.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen

America sends no laborers to Japan; Japan has discharged American professors in Japan and Korea the very moment the Oriental understudy reported that he was ready to assume charge; America has bought from Japan vastly more than she has sold to her; the timely loans of America to Japan, as Mr. Jacob H. Schiff has said in his notable speech of 1910, enabled Japan to continue the war with Russia until victory was won; American friendship for Japan enabled that nation to secure larger treaty stipulations from Russia at Portsmouth than any other host of the negotiators would have encouraged, and above all, the tactful American, Perry, opened up Japan 217 to modernity in 1854.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

Mr. Samuel E. Platt, Secretary to the Estate Company; Mr. J. V. Muller, Manager.
— from All about Battersea by Henry S. Simmonds

Do you like jewels?" "Very much," said Lina; "but I have never possessed any except mamma's few trinkets and the engagement-ring that Ronald gave me."
— from Jaquelina by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Small roast loin of mutton; the remains of hare, jugged; vegetable marrow and potatoes.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Oct. 7. —Since the last entry in my Journal various matters of interest have occurred.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3) by George Eliot

This issue presented itself in at least three notable cases under the law of 1793: these were Jack vs. Martin (1835), Peter, alias Lewis Martin (1837), and Prigg vs. Pennsylvania (1842).
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

Edited by the Rev. H. L. Mansel , B.D., LL.D., Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, Oxford; and John Veitch , M.A., Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics, St Andrews.
— from Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William McCombie