Why, with a bottle of hair-dye, such as we see advertised in the papers, and a pot of rouge, you'd be as good-looking as I, any day, Phoebe.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

the service you have done me exceeds all power of return: you have restored me to my senses; you have taught me to curb those passions which bereft me of them; and, since I cannot avoid calamity, to bear it as a man!
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

(In a letter to Byron, dated February 18, 1817, Murray speaks of a certain B. "as your incessant persecutor—the source of all affected public opinion respecting you.")
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

He saw a party of roaring young blades from Oxbridge in the coffee-room of his hotel, and slunk away from them, and paced the streets.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

In the moment there was a wild burst of joyous laughter, a pair of round young arms were flung about Conrad’s neck and a sweet voice cried: “There, Conrad mine, thy kind words kill me—the farce shall go no further!
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

She had put on a peignoir of raw yellow silk covered with heavy gold thread embroidery, a barbaric thing that must have cost a hundred pounds at least.
— from Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee

It is not a promise of rescue, yet despair clutches it.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas

I have done no so badly with the dopes and the legitimate trade, but I must do a power of robbery yet before I can count dollars with Sir John Toppys.'
— from Madame Gilbert's Cannibal by Bennet Copplestone

This brisk and peppery farce is one of the cleanest and most hilariously amusing plays of recent years.
— from The Ghost of Jerry Bundler by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

He might be slowly realizing that he was not fronting a repentant schoolboy rescued from a piece of regrettable youthful folly.
— from Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton

For a seat is a place of rest, yea, is prepared for that end; and in that here mercy is called that seat, it is to show, as I said, that whatever work is on the wheel in the world, let it be never so dreadful and amazing, yet to God's church it shall end in mercy, for that is God's resting-place.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Yokes made and put on: Round yokes—petticoats; round front and straight back—drawers and petticoats; bias yokes—waists; shaped yokes—aprons; round yokes—children's dresses; miter corner yoke—dresses.
— from The Making of a Trade School by Mary Schenck Woolman