I reminded her that Mr. Fairlie's letters to Miss Halcombe and to herself did certainly sanction, and even render necessary, sooner or later, the course that had been taken.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

My worthy friend Cap Lewis has entirely recovered his wounds are heeled up and he Can walk and even run nearly as well as ever he Could.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This confused succession of emotions did not retard the future efforts of my reason, though they added an extravagant, romantic notion of human life, which experience and reflection have never been able to eradicate.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For it is not as a very great philosopher, nor as an eloquent rhetorician, nor as a grammarian trained in the highest principles of his art, that I have striven to write this work, but as an architect who has had only a dip into those studies.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Others of the condemned men bore fair characters; and even Richard Norris, who absconded to avoid trial, had been of respectable repute.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Rarely a substantive equivalent to a neuter pronoun: as, eam rem nōs locus admonuit , S. I. 79, 1, the place has reminded me of that .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The assiduity with which the Abbe Grimont called every morning at Les Touches, and sometimes dined there, became the great topic of the town; it was talked of all over the region, and even reached Nantes.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

When Chloe toasts her Beau, or raves too loud; When Flavia leaves her home, and joins a croud; When Silvia fearless rolls the roguish eye, And Damon's want of confidence supply; When betts, and duns, and every rougher name, Sound in the ear of either Sex the same; 220 How should we tell, when thus you love and hate, Who acts the Man, and who's effeminate?
— from George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3) by George Crabbe

Ee tried describin’ ’im, and couldn’t, so Branwell drew pictures of all the persons as ’ad left, and ’ee recog nised the one as ’ee wanted.”
— from A Daughter of the Vine by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

In one word, he will rise from religion to that which is above even religion, namely theology.
— from Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Charles Kingsley

An Eastern Romance Narrated In SONGS.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

Oxford and Exeter reached Newark with their force.
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Because of this wish, some time later, on a fine morning, when the Batavier steamboat was about to leave its dock, we see among the carriages being taken on, a very neat, handsome travelling carriage, from which a courier, Kirsch by name, got out and informed inquirers that the carriage belonged to an enormously rich Nabob from Calcutta and Jamaica, with whom he was engaged to travel.
— from Boys and Girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

As an effective respectable number, Brunswick, Hessen, Mainz and others, did, [List of them in Dohm.]—had not, indeed, the first Three themselves, especially as Hanover meant England withal, been themselves moderately sufficient.—Here, before the date quite pass, are two Clippings which may be worth their room:— 1. BOUILLE'S SECOND VISIT (Spring, 1785).
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle

The oldest road, by which the British troops made their entry and exit, runs northeasterly to the Hawthorne house and Lexington with a firm, dry sidewalk for more than a mile; another goes northwesterly to the battle-ground and Esterbrook farm, where there were magnificent chestnut trees equal in size and shape to the Persian walnuts of Europe, as well as huge granite boulders scattered about from some pre-historic glacier.
— from Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier by Frank Preston Stearns

Very fine lands rise above it; along which, still following the stream in all its windings, the road is carried, presenting to the travellers at every reach new and striking pictures.
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier