The world has, in the past, attempted various methods of attaining this end, most of which can be summed up in three categories: The method of the benevolent tyrant.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

He looked at me as though I were very glad to see him and very much interested in him.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And, in short, from knowing his usual ways, I am very much inclined to think that it was for their accommodation the carriage was used at all.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Animated, intelligent and pretty, after having sacrificed herself to true love, after having known "some poor but dishonorable writers," after having tried intimacy with several rich simpletons, she was met in a day of distress, at Valentino Mussard's, by Arthur de Rochefide, who loved her madly.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Margaret was a little surprised, and very much pleased, when she found her father and Higgins in earnest conversation—each speaking with gentle politeness to the other, however their opinions might clash.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Kítà kaáyu ímung panti, Your panties are very much in view.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

On the other hand, a German, Russian, or Negro peasant of the southern states, different as each is in some respects, are all very much alike in certain habitual attitudes and sentiments.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This organ, therefore, by whose fitness of form the mind declares its own entity in nature, by the invention and creation of the thing, which is, as it were, the mind's autograph, claims a high interest in surgical anatomy; and accordingly the surgeon lays it down as a rule, strictly to be observed, that when this beautiful and valuable member happens to be seriously mutilated, in any of those various accidents to which it is exposed, the prime consideration should be, not as to the fact of how much of its quantity or parts it can be deprived in operation, but rather as to how little of its quantity should it be deprived, since no mechanical ingenuity can fashion an apparatus, capable of supplying the loss of a finger, or even of one of its joints.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

So after all it was a very merry night.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Before day the next morning the army was in motion toward Maryland, Gen. Lee still riding in the ambulance, very much, no doubt, to the chagrin of "Traveler," who was led by a soldier, just behind the ambulance.
— from From Bull Run to Appomattox: A Boy's View by Luther W. Hopkins

Three healthy looking lasses, with rosy cheeks, and a stately youth, had braved the wind and rain to join our party, which, with this acquisition, was a very merry one.
— from Historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America (Vol 2 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

Now the space-yacht moved toward a vast mass of fleecy whiteness without any visible features.
— from Planet of Dread by Murray Leinster

Hainán was evidently very proud of having thus taken his oath of allegiance to the Tsar, and he never got tired of relating the circumstance; but as every time he told his story he adorned it with fresh inventions and absurdities, it became at last a veritable Münchausen affair, which was always received with Homeric laughter by Romashov and his guests.
— from The Duel by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

Disease and violence may be regarded as but instruments of destruction in the hand of the Almighty.
— from The Cat: Its Natural History; Domestic Varieties; Management and Treatment by Philip M. Rule

And more than this; it has sown in the hearts of young gentlemen and young ladies seed which will not perish; which, though it may develop into forms little expected by those who sowed it, will develop at least into a virtue more stately and reverent, more chivalrous and self-sacrificing, more genial and human, than can be learnt from that religion of the Stock Exchange, which reigned triumphant—for a year and a day—in the popular pulpits.
— from Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley

Before he examined that section, it would not be improper to notice a very material misstatement of it made in the resolutions, offered by the gentleman from New York.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Many small changes were from time to time made in the various small fittings by which the guy-wires were attached to the frame, nearly all of these fittings having been originally made of a very mild grade of steel owing to the fact that it was so very much easier to work.
— from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911 by Charles M. (Charles Matthews) Manly

[1131] "If a man and woman have gone through the ceremony of marriage at the church door, we may say that we have here a de facto marriage, a union which stands to a valid marriage in somewhat the same relation as that in which possession stands to ownership.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

The Hualzar Indians are very much afraid of them, and one I showed the picture to of the Monster in your paper remarked, "Chinamuck," which in Hualzar language means "very bad."
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various