The governor of the fort detached a party of three hundred men to lay waste Lochiel's possessions and cut down his trees; by in a sudden and desperate attack made upon them by the chieftain with very inferior numbers, they were almost all cut to pieces.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

The difference is that public opinion is determined by conflict and discussion, and made up of the opinions of individuals not wholly at one.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Hastily folding and directing this, she went to a drawer and made up a little package of clothing for her boy, which she tied with a handkerchief firmly round her waist; and, so fond is a mother’s remembrance, that, even in the terrors of that hour, she did not forget to put in the little package one or two of his favorite toys, reserving a gayly painted parrot to amuse him, when she should be called on to awaken him.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He found there a great and deep affection; made up of tenderness, gratitude and the thousand subtleties which give birth to long and powerful attachments.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

This was really too tragic, and Darya Alexandrovna made up her mind to persuade the English governess to forgive Grisha, and she went to speak to her.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I thought when we got them a governess they’d improve; but, instead of that, they get worse and worse: I don’t know how it is with their learning, but their habits, I know, make no sort of improvement; they get rougher, and dirtier, and more unseemly every day.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

However he raged, and, filled with suppression that became hot and bitter, hated her in his soul that she did not want him, however he had mad outbursts, and drank and made ugly scenes, still he knew, he was only kicking against the pricks.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The morn, that warns th' approaching day, Awakes me up to toil and woe; I see the hours in long array, That I must suffer, lingering, slow: Full many a pang, and many a throe, Keen recollection's direful train, Must wring my soul, were Phoebus, low, Shall kiss the distant western main.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

He was a very large landowner in our province and district, a man used to the society of Petersburg, and a son of the late Pavel Pavlovitch Gaganov, the venerable old man with whom Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch had, over four years before, had the extraordinarily coarse and sudden encounter which I have described already in the beginning of my story.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A and D are mounted upon short stilts, and B and C are nailed to the uprights supporting the handle.
— from The Boy Craftsman Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy's Leisure Hours by A. Neely (Albert Neely) Hall

I am desolate and most unhappy.
— from Wives of the Prime Ministers, 1844-1906 by Lucy Masterman

The conjunctive is lyke the optative in his present and preterittes, save that we say in stede of pleust a Dieu, a ma uoullente; sy, come, quant, or ueu , sayeng for the present, sy je fuisse maintenant, comme jay congneu, quant jeusse sentu.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

The female and young are duller and more uniformly spotted.
— from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis (John Lewis) Bonhote

It isnt oft aw set off throo hooam, but when aw do aw mak up mi mind to enjoy mysen.
— from Seets i' Paris Sammywell Grimes's trip with his old chum Billy Baccus, his opinion o' th' French, and th' French opinion o' th' exhibition he made ov hissen by John Hartley

I lived with my Aunt Deel and my Uncle Peabody Baynes on a farm.
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller

Instinctively, Chad swung on in spite of the roar of laughter and astonishment that greeted him and, as Tom banged the gate, the ram swerved and Chad shot off sidewise as from a catapult and dropped, a most unheroic little knight, in the mire.
— from The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by Fox, John, Jr.

Edmond Pendleton was of royalist origin, and lived and died a most uncompromising churchman.
— from A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny by John R. (John Roy) Musick

There were times, for instance, when, like Harris, we were in dread of the blacks, who had done some very queer things here and there about; then the place was terribly lonely, and out of the way if you wanted a doctor; and Mary used to joke me because I could never get half a pint of beer, but I found I could get on just as well without it; and, my word, what a capital cup of tea we always did have!
— from Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn