Saint Patrick would want to land again at Ballykinlar and convert us, says the citizen, after allowing things like that to contaminate our shores.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Till then, you are to be kept in the condemned cell, and have everything you like as befits a criminal under sentence of death, and enjoy yourself while you may."
— from The Strange Story of Rab Ráby by Mór Jókai

All this, no doubt, is partly owing to his youth and inexperience; but in truth his character is mainly that of a brave and clever upstart, somewhat intoxicated with sudden success, and not a little puffed with vanity of the Prince's favour.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

"Well, then, Mancy, I'll tell you what: you make us a nice pot of chocolate, and fix us some thin bread and butter, and cut up some of the fruit cake to put with those little fancy cakes; won't that do?" "Yas'm, I spec' so; but it's a mighty slim layout, 'specially for dem hearty young chaps.
— from Patty at Home by Carolyn Wells

I was asleep, but a cold, uncomfortable sleep that is no real rest.
— from Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards

On entering the front door you were oppressed by the chill, damp atmosphere, and by a certain unnatural stillness.
— from The Unclassed by George Gissing

However, I felt reassured in a bath and clean underclothing secured a week before at Tassuasak.
— from My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy by Frederick Albert Cook

At the time of his arrest, the vilest modern despotism of the Continent had reached its acme; and the patriotic movements it then sought to annihilate by a cruelty unparalleled since the Middle Ages were justified even by conservative reformers, on account of their stringent moral necessity, the intelligent scope of their advocates, and the high and cultivated spirit of their illustrious martyrs.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Companies "A," "B," and "C," U. S. Engineers.
— from Following the Flag, from August 1861 to November 1862, with the Army of the Potomac by Charles Carleton Coffin

Then she would plead and beg and chatter, until she sometimes dissuaded my wife, and she seemed aware that she had accomplished her purpose.
— from The Speech of Monkeys by R. L. (Richard Lynch) Garner