As many farewells as be stars in heaven, With distinct breath and consign’d kisses to them, He fumbles up into a loose adieu, And scants us with a single famish’d kiss, Distasted with the salt of broken tears.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It is a general practice, indeed, with girls of humble rank in her unhappy condition, not (as novel-reading women of higher pretensions) to style themselves Miss Douglas , Miss Montague , &c., but simply by their Christian names— Mary , Jane , Frances , &c. Her surname, as the surest means of tracing her hereafter, I ought now to have inquired; but the truth is, having no reason to think that our meeting could, in consequence of a short interruption, be more difficult or uncertain than it had been for so many weeks, I had scarcely for a moment adverted to it as necessary, or placed it amongst my memoranda against this parting interview; and my final anxieties being spent in comforting her with hopes, and in pressing upon her the necessity of getting some medicines for a violent cough and hoarseness with which she was troubled, I wholly forgot it until it was too late to recall her.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Bully beef wi' a pound or two o' raw flour, what you haven't got nothin' to cook wi'—it do make a man feel a bit sick, I can tell 'ee, when it do come day arter day.
— from North, South and Over the Sea by M. E. Francis

Another hour had passed and Bruff had been had down four more times, always after his fashion to show where the man they sought must be, but still there was no result to their task, and Mark felt a blank sensation of despair troubling him, for he could see that the first-mate was beginning to lose faith in the dog’s instinct, though there had for long enough past been nothing to prove that he was wrong, not so much as a sigh being heard.
— from Mother Carey's Chicken: Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by George Manville Fenn

Angelica is a shrewd but hearty ‘English girl,’ and Miss Prue a veritable country Miss; while Mrs. Frail and Mrs. Foresight are broadly skittish matrons.
— from The Old Bachelor: A Comedy by William Congreve

In the former case the duration of the symptoms is very short, and, instead of being continuous in their development, they will subside if the dose has not been strong enough to produce death, and will be renewed in fresh paroxysms; whereas, in other descriptions of tetanus, the symptoms commence in a mild form, and become stronger and more violent as the disease progresses.
— from The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days by Anonymous

I looked about me for Ayesha, but she had gone, where to I knew not, though at the moment I feared that she must have been killed in the mêlée.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He had gone, she said, at the call of duty to accomplish what good he might, but never in the whole course of his professional experience had his words fallen on a more flinty and barren soil.
— from A Romantic Young Lady by Robert Grant

A dear and wise and exquisite child, drew a plan for a headstone on the grave of a favorite terrier, and she had in it the words “ WHO died” on such a day; the older and more worldly-minded painter put in “ WHICH ;” and my friend and “Bossy’s” said to me, with some displeasure, as we were examining the monuments, “Wasn’t he a Who as much as they?” and wasn’t she righter than they?
— from Spare Hours by John Brown

Scarcely had this happened ere his master himself became a misty form and both soared noiselessly away.
— from Pictures of Hellas: Five Tales of Ancient Greece by Peder Mariager