On the Monday after Christmas-day, ( i. e. the day but one following,) came cantering up to the Hall Lord De la Zouch and Mr. Delamere, of course staying to luncheon and bearing a most pressing invitation from Lady De la Zouch, zealously backed by themselves, for the Aubreys to join a large party at Fotheringham Castle on New-Year's Eve.
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

With these words that man consoled me, and then departed somewhere or other, but I have come here, having abandoned my design of committing suicide.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

It reproduced in almost every particular the thoughts and moods distinctive of Christian socialists in England; and this article I will here take as a text.
— from A Critical Examination of Socialism by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

[Baron Mundy , the founder of the valuable Vienna Voluntary Sanitary Ambulance Society, mighty foe of disease and munificent dispenser of charity, shot himself on Thursday, August 23, on the banks of the Danube, at the advanced age of 72.]
— from Punch or the London Charivari, Vol.107, September 1, 1894 by Various

There all my dreams of Canadian scenery were more than realised.
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

With a less robust frame, a more delicately organized constitution, she will endure for months what would kill a robust man in as many weeks.
— from Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg