The room door of the one-pair back, bore inscribed in legible characters the imposing words, ‘Mr. Fogg’; and, having tapped thereat, and been desired to come in, Jackson ushered Mr. Pickwick into the presence.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Seven girls robed in robes of spotless white flitted to and fro in the garden, while Japanese umbrellas made picturesque splashes of colour amongst the green.
— from A Houseful of Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

"Coming to join us, Mr. Power?"
— from The Cinema Murder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

In this moment of trembling apprehension for every thought which darts across my mind, and more for every action which I must soon be called to answer for; all worldly views here thrown aside, [Pg 6] I act as if that tribunal, before which I every moment expect to appear, were now sitting in judgment upon my purpose.
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald

"I uphold Mr. Spottiswoode," replied Julia, "upon many points, and I cannot flatter you, Penelope, by saying you have done right in one particular."
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 1 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

He appeared to be a most obedient, zealous pupil, and succeeded in blinding the good fathers so completely that, to serve their own ends, they gave him instruction in everything that could win him esteem at courts,--the most accurate information about all personal and diplomatic relations, the royal families, reports made by the emissaries of the Jesuits in every country, a quantity of secrets whose judicious use must procure him a great influence, and, in short, impressed their whole sophistical moral teachings upon his mind.
— from A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern

Auch Major Oja Jantovic und Milan Pribicevic gehören zu diesen Gründern.
— from Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

"All the same, I shall have to put him into a common jail until Master Pyper is able to read what you have brought."
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking

[100] Sometimes I have been so loaden with my sins, that I could not tell where to rest, nor what to do; yea, at such times, I thought it would have taken away my senses; yet, at that time, God through grace hath all on a sudden so effectually applied the blood that was spilt at Mount Calvary out of the side of Jesus, unto my poor, wounded, guilty conscience, that presently I have found such a sweet, solid, sober, heart-comforting peace, that I have been in a strait to think that I should love and honour Him no more.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

'You who will not agree to join us, must promise not to tell,' said the captain; 'for if you do, we will never forgive you, nor speak to you again.
— from The Talisman: A Tale for Boys by Anonymous