Of course Robert and Amelia are because I make 'em skeered on purpose.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The Archbishop of Palermo, in his Pindaric eulogy of the Spiritual Guide , says that this admirable book is most especially suitable to the direction of nuns .
— from Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet

So I have just done giving a set of lectures to working-men on "The Various Races of Mankind," which really would make a book in Miss Emma's sense of the word, and which I have had reported.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

If he has acted contrary to the promptings of his own conscience, then he is assuredly a sinner, even if his action be in my eyes splendid and exemplary."
— from Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau

I, being an interpreter, held aloof because I must ever set an example to my red comrades.
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Not only may the curve have an almost straight and horizontal course, or slope or curve upwards at varying angles; but it may even slope downwards, corresponding to a decrease in the solubility with rise of temperature; may exhibit maxima or minima of solubility, or may, as in the case of some hydrated salts, pass through a point of maximum temperature.
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

I was born under British colours, on the way out to the States, before either my father or mother, and I may add before I myself, ever set foot on American soil.
— from Under St Paul's: A Romance by Richard Dowling