But should this expectation prove fallacious, and the slavery agitation be renewed, it will furnish, the Governor says, "proof, convincing and conclusive, of that fixed and settled hostility to slavery on the part of the North which should and will satisfy every reasonable man that peace between us is impossible; and then a necessity stronger than all law, the necessity of self-preservation, will demand at our hands a separation from those who use the relationship of brotherhood only for the purpose of inflicting upon us the worst acts of malignant hostility."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

Withal, of a nature so true and lovable that it goes against me to criticize him.
— from Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley) Sorrel

But I am not sure that a little tear did not drop on Daisy-flower, as Emma put it into the doctor's hand.
— from The Nursery, November 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 5 by Various

For when she had got him to be so very wicked she might have spared him some of the nastiness, and not said those awful leering things so loud.
— from The Judge by Rebecca West

Now I discovered, to my dismay, that streets which had seemed no longer than those with which I was familiar at Newcastle stretched to a length that was apparently interminable; whilst instead of one unbroken thoroughfare I was rattled in my cab through squares and streets innumerable, the names of none of which had I been able to read upon my plan.
— from Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

For it was a sound principle, that when a general power is granted, and the means are not specified, they are left to the discretion of those in whom the trust is reposed, provided they do not adopt means expressly forbidden.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress