If, however, he has been permitted to talk on and on incessantly a whole evening, to the complete closing of the mouths of the rest, he goes away with all the benevolent glow of feeling which arises from a gratified faculty, remarking to the gentleman who takes his arm, ‘What a great deal of pleasant {220} conversation we have had!’ and chatters forth all the way home such sentences as, ‘Excellent fellow, our host,’ ‘charming wife,’ ‘delightful family altogether,’ ‘always make everybody so happy.’
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The office and title of County-Lieutenant do not appear to have been kept up: "John Macdonell, Esq., Glengary; William Fortune, Esq., Prescott; Archibald Macdonell, Esq., Stormont; Hon.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

But one after the other the birds were killed, and then Ak Molot easily slew his foe.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Tom had allowed her thirty-five dollars a month ever since he came into his property, and had said that he and she ought to be grateful to the twins for making them rich; but had roused such a temper in her by 265 this speech that he did not repeat the argument afterward.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Birth, riches, and every intrinsic advantage that exalt a man above his fellows, without any mental exertion, sink him in reality below them.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

The Prince talked very earnestly with the Professorin, expressing his regret that a lady of such rare spiritual and mental endowments should have withdrawn from Court.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

[Pg 204] CHAPTER XI A Midnight Encounter Six hours and more had passed since Tyler and his little band of Dyak followers had witnessed the passage of the two helpless captives from the English vessel to the pirates' stronghold, and already darkness had fallen over the island of Borneo.
— from With the Dyaks of Borneo: A Tale of the Head Hunters by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

“There is a man,” explained Sidney hurriedly, “getting out of the train who is coming to stay with us.
— from The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman

Down before that short German sword went turban and caftan; till the French knights, aware of their king's danger, spurred in to his rescue, and, with a mighty effort, saved him from captivity.
— from The Boy Crusaders: A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by John G. (John George) Edgar

“Monsieur, you told me to watch Count Camus, and more especially should he use a dagger to cut fruit with.”
— from The Presentation by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

But Bob probably deserved all those twinges and pangs and mournful emotions she had caused him.
— from Nothing But the Truth by Frederic Stewart Isham

Again Mr Endicott surveyed his cousin with a vague impulse of malice and of rivalry.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant