Yet shall not you be put to such a sharp, hard, rigorous, and extreme sparing diet.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Every other Friday afternoon she has recitations and everybody has to say a piece or take part in a dialogue.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

He succeeds in all styles, he renders all expressions, he seizes all characters, and he also augments their effect by contrast.
— from The Natural History of Cage Birds Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching Them. by Johann Matthäus Bechstein

The queen gave orders that she should receive the same attentions as though she were already a lady-in-waiting, made her take a bath and some hours' rest, and engaged a carriage for her in the train for Frankfort.
— from The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas

To an American Episcopalian the catalogue is chiefly interesting as showing how ready and even eager were our colonial ancestors of a hundred years ago to remove out of the way such known rocks of offence as they could.
— from A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington

Violetta, however, though terribly agitated, only declared that she wished to hear him say once again that he loved her; and when Alfred had amply satisfied her request, and embraced her tenderly, she [366] retired to the garden without informing him of her new resolve.
— from Stories from the Operas by Gladys Davidson

On the 20th of June, the Maharajah Scindia, attended by the governor-general’s agent for Central India, and Sir Hugh Rose, and escorted by British troops, was restored to the palace of his ancestors, and was welcomed by his subjects with every mark of loyalty and attachment.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

She must have used up, of course, a good share of her Bulmer Baking Powder money in supporting my father comfortably; but she had always lived in such estate as to make me assume she had retained, anyhow, enough of the Bulmer money to last my time.
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

It was good to see the intense bliss on Ivinghoe’s face as he led his bride down the aisle, and along the cloister; and as they came into the drawing-room, after she had received an earnest kiss, and “my pretty one” from his father, it was to Dr. May that he first led her.
— from The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge