There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” — Report of Daniel Webster’s Speech in the U. S. Senate, on the application for the Erection of a Breakwater at Nantucket .
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Algunos se han hecho temibles caciques, y son los que amasan las elecciones y tienen influjo en Madrid, reparten 30 destinos...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Dryf out the fantasyes yow with-inne; 1615 And trusteth me, and leveth eek your sorwe,
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

It was very touching, and even the theatre tickets, which he would regularly send her from then on, would not be enough to repay her, but he really did not feel, now, that it was right for him to visit her in her lodgings and hold conversations with a little, eighteen year old schoolgirl.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

“Well, let me at least embrace you and say goodbye, you strange fellow!” cried the prince, looking with gentle reproach at Rogojin, and advancing towards him.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Well, but Claude; You may at least eat your supper here?
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

It is obvious to hint at a lower expression, yet in a picture, that for respects of drawing and colouring, might be deemed not wholly inadmissible within these art-fostering walls, in which the raptures should be as ninety-nine, the gratitude as one, or perhaps Zero!
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-hearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

All," she added, with a laugh, "except you, Mr. Joseph." "Me!" said Joseph, meditating an instant departure.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Insularly, the strand of ignorance could be easily snapped, remedied by but a little education, yet when woven together by one’s own hands with prides and prejudices, it forms an unbreakable rope, which is placed about our neck to hang us: through means of our own doing is our fate foretold.
— from The Revolutions of Time by Jonathan Dunn

The grandfather was already entering the travelling coach, when Erick was held back by 'Lizebeth; he had pressed into her hand a valuable paper, but she had put her apron to her eyes and had begun to sob aloud behind it, and now she was holding Erick and said: "I think the Sir Grandfather, he means it well as far as he sees things; but that he takes the dear boy away from us,—to take one's little boy simply away—" "I will come back again, 'Lizebeth, every year when the storks return.
— from Erick and Sally by Johanna Spyri

Your very kind letter is the more agreeable, because, setting aside talents, judgment, and the laudari a laudato , etc., you have been on the spot; you have seen and described more of the East than any of your predecessors—I need not say how ably and successfully; and (excuse the bathos) you are one of the very few men who can pronounce how far my costume (to use an affected but expressive word) is correct.
— from The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

With the master and the household and the friends who had gathered to celebrate and offer thanks at the Yuletide 18 season, with all listening eagerly, young Gabriel Arthur, though unable to bring back any written record, told many a stirring tale.
— from Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas

“As the result of much experience, I have obtained on an average, 75 grains of theine from the roasting of 1 lb. of raw coffee; and when we reflect that in Great Britain alone, there are more than 13,000 tons of coffee roasted annually, we see that about 140 tons of theine are wasted and lost every year by sheer ignorance.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

And as I no longer wrote a letter every year to the old uncle telling him of my progress in fencing and horsemanship, and signing myself Francis Mordaunt (I had been told this was the accepted orthography in England), Sir John received no more bills of exchange from that source.
— from Major Frank by A. L. G. (Anna Louisa Geertruida) Bosboom-Toussaint

It’s a little early yet.
— from The Stolen Statesman: Being the Story of a Hushed Up Mystery by William Le Queux

It was said that the money was hidden in the house in which they lived, and at length eight young men of evil lives, pondering upon this, resolved that they would rob this noble couple.
— from Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards

It seemed to him he had already looked everywhere, yet there was nothing to do except to continue the search, only more systematically.
— from Keith of the Border: A Tale of the Plains by Randall Parrish