Every time the Colonel came into the real estate office Washington’s heart bounded and his eyes lighted with hope, but it always turned out that the Colonel was merely on the scent of some vast, undefined landed speculation—although he was customarily able to say that he was nearer to the all-necessary ingredient than ever, and could almost name the hour when success would dawn.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

I brought him down one evening, the day before yesterday, and just set him in a chair, and never touched him afterwards.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

When I pray to God I like to light a little lamp or a candle, and not to have a noise around me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Indeed, half his natural flow of animal spirits, joined to the sweetness of his temper, was sufficient to make a most amiable companion; and notwithstanding the heaviness of his heart, so agreeable did he make himself on the present occasion, that, at their breaking up, the young gentleman earnestly desired his further acquaintance.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Asen y frân, spare rib of pork Asgell, n. a wing Asgellhaid, n. wing-swarm Asgellog, a. winged Asgellu, v. to wing; to fly Asgellwrych, n. spray Asgellwynt, n. side-wind Asgen, n. harm, damage Asgethru, v. to splinter Asglinen, n. a stem, a lineage Asglod, n. a chip Asgre, n. the heart; the bosom Asgri, n. a tremour Asgwn, a. depressed, debased Asgwrn, n. a bone Asgyrneiddio, v. to become bone Asgyrniad, n. ossification Asgyrnig, a. bony, large boned Asgyrnog, a. bony, full of bone Asgyrnu, v. to ossify Asiad, n. a joining, a soldering: or cementing Asio, v. to join, to solder Astrus, a. perplexed Astrusi, n. perplexity, trouble Asur, n. the blue sky, azure Aswy, n. the left, the sinister Aswyniad, n. a craving Asyn, n. a male ass At, prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Would it not be best to let Cyrus Harding judge of what he ought to do, and to warn him, at least, of the danger which threatened him? Neb then thought of employing Jup, and confiding a note to him.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

To him it is, as a critic, and not to his son, who was a poet, that Robert Herrick, born seven years after Beaumont, writes:
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

*One, and only one, instance may be produced in which the disciples of Christ do seem to have attempted a cure, and not to have been able to perform it.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

Then they drew their heads to a circle, and Nobela thrust hers into the centre of the circle and said a word.
— from Nada the Lily by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Every time the Colonel came into the real estate office Washington's heart bounded and his eyes lighted with hope, but it always turned out that the Colonel was merely on the scent of some vast, undefined landed speculation—although he was customarily able to say that he was nearer to the all-necessary ingredient than ever, and could almost name the hour when success would dawn.
— from The Gilded Age, Part 1. by Charles Dudley Warner

However, on the whole, the movement of development of all mankind is and remains a progressive one, inasmuch as man continually removes himself further from his ape-like ancestors, and continually approaches nearer to his own ideal.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

Pauline saw doubt, desire, and hope; knew that a word would bring the ally she needed; and, with a courage as native to her as her pride, resolved to utter it.
— from Pauline's Passion and Punishment by Louisa May Alcott

But his face, absolutely composed and normal, told her nothing.
— from The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

When I have had occasion to reprove boys for apparent carelessness and neglect they have more than once replied — “I can’t help it.
— from Life in a Railway Factory by Alfred Williams

maligns (54) used as a neuter verb without precedent, chinked (58) of light passing through a chink: and note the homophone chink, used of sound.
— from The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Society for Pure English, Tract 05 by Society for Pure English

In his youth he had been a campaigner; and now that he was a preacher he maintained his hardy habits, and always slept, summer and winter, with a bit of his window up.
— from J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 The Haunted Baronet (1871) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu