“There are three thousand men in the British army,” repeated the old lady, in a tone of certainty that was positively crushing.
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

There will be a revenue tariff on "luxury" imports.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

We are well aware that a corresponding feeling would be manifested in the United States by a portion, doubtless a large portion, of the population; but certainly not by those who justify or palliate their own oppression by a reference to our lamentable intemperance.
— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I left the body, and returned to our lodging, in a state of mental prostration and misery proportioned to the heat and excitement with which I had quitted it.
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

And if that craving be not satisfied by a rational theory of life, it will demand satisfaction from some magical theory; as did the mind of the eighteenth century when, revolting from materialism, it fled to magic, to explain the ever-astounding miracle of life.
— from The Ancien Régime by Charles Kingsley