She felt instinctively that if this man with his intense and romantic nature ever yielded to the spell of her love, there could be no limit to which he would not go at her bidding.
— from The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

The chapter is entitled, “The strange adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh in Essex, sent by the Portugals prisoner to Angola, who lived there and in the adjioining regions neere eighteene yeeres.”
— from Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

she continued, and then coming into the room and wiping his face with the towel as he came, Archie replied: "Nice enough, yes; but I don't know what we are going to do when we have to leave here, I tell you, it makes a chap feel mighty mean not to have a shilling in his pocket, and that's just my case.
— from Bessie's Fortune: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

I must stop now, but I still remain, Your affectionate reader, N ew York City.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 17, March 4, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

The plain man's religious demands upon the poet are really not excessive, yet the poet, from the romantic period onward, has taken delight in scandalizing him.
— from The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins

More inventions are received now each year at the Patent Office than were received during the first fifty years of its existence.
— from Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim

Others have found the post a giant's robe Or lacked the needful patience of a Job; But you, by dint of fearless common sense, Have won and held all Parties' confidence; Firm as the rock and as the crystal clear, When need arises righteously austere, Ready, not eager, your advice to lend, And not afraid in season to unbend.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 by Various

The chapter is entitled, "The strange adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh in Essex, sent by the Portugals prisoner to Angola, who lived there and in the adjoining regions neere eighteene yeeres."
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Yes, you all right now, eh?' "'Yes,' I said, patiently, 'but if you want a book on navigation, mathematics and so on, I can let you have it.'
— from Aliens by William McFee