Let's see:

In "Silas Marner" it's written (Chapter IV) that Dunstan takes a drink from "his pocket-pistol."

"Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam."
                                       --Moby-Dick

"Our history must needs retrograde for the space of a few pages, to inform the reader of certain passages materials to his understanding of the rest of this important narrative."
                           --Ivanoe (Scott was being paid by the word,
                                     I assume)