“Thou mayst call me,” answered the hermit, “the Clerk of Copmanhurst, for so I am termed in these parts—They add, it is true, the epithet holy, but I stand not upon that, as being unworthy of such addition.—And now, valiant knight, may I pray ye for the name of my honourable guest?”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The plan proposed by the writer is of immense extent—it is his object to write not merely a Natural History in our restricted sense of the term, not an account merely, more or less detailed, of animals, plants, and minerals, but a work which embraces astronomy, physics, geography, agriculture, commerce, medicine, and the fine arts—and all these in addition to natural history properly so called; while at the same time he continually interweaves with his narrative information upon the arts which bear relation to man considered metaphysically, and the history of nations,—so much so indeed, that in many respects this work was the Encyclopædia of its age.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

But, this time, my own interests were at the bottom of my compassionate motive, and they hurried me on a little too abruptly, to the end I had in view.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The most common method appears to have been the wearing of the skin of the animal in question.
— from Human Animals by Frank Hamel

This enigmatical sentence, which in reality was intended, as the sequel will show, to be interpreted in the most cruel manner, appears to have caused some perplexity in the Council, as that body deemed it necessary to apply for more distinct and specific instructions, which, however, were not then issued.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Volume 62, No. 386, December, 1847 by Various

“Dear me!” cried Merivale, advancing toward him.
— from As It Was Written: A Jewish Musician's Story by Henry Harland

Some have been banished; some have been branded and imprisoned; others put to death, after having been tortured in the most cruel manner; and thousands have been out-lawed and driven from their peaceful homes without pity.
— from A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion Principal Historical Facts and Personages of the Books Known as The Old and New Testament; With Remarks on the Morality of Nature by Benjamin Offen

Here I came forward, and said that, three days since, I had received an order to quit Strasburg for Paris, immediately after a conversation with Schneider, in which I had asked him his aid in promoting my marriage with my cousin, Mary Ancel; that he had heard from me full accounts regarding her father’s wealth; and that he had abruptly caused my dismissal, in order to carry on his scheme against her.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

The complaints most commonly made are that he could be too easily used as a strike breaker and that he lacked interest in the trade union movement.
— from Negro Migration during the War by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott

"You may call me all the hard names you like: I deserve them all, and more.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various

That the Minister Plenipotentiary of these United States at the Court of Versailles, communicate to His Most Christian Majesty the high satisfaction Congress have received from the conduct and gallant behaviour of Captain John Paul Jones, which have merited the attention and approbation of His Most Christian Majesty, and that His Majesty's offer of adorning Captain Jones with a Cross of Military Merit is highly acceptable to Congress.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

—When the Richard of Mr. Cooke makes allusions to his own form , they seem accompanied with unmixed distaste and pain , like some obtrusive and haunting idea—But surely the Richard of Shakespeare mingles in these allusions a perpetual reference to his own powers and capacities, by which he is enabled to surmount these petty objections; and the joy of a defect conquered , or turned into an advantage, is one cause of these very allusions, and of the satisfaction, with which his mind recurs to them.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb