She would have been too happy but for poor Harriet; but every blessing of her own seemed to involve and advance the sufferings of her friend, who must now be even excluded from Hartfield.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords; and the petty sums which any bankrupt of high standing would be sorry to retire upon, may be lifted to the level of high commercial transactions by the inexpensive addition of proportional ciphers.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Kitty Foote came on Wednesday; and her evening visit began early enough for the last part, the apple-pie, of our dinner, for we never dine now till five.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

He has hinted to our children that he would rather they wouldn’t come about his yard to play with his children,—which I can bear, and bear easy enough, for they’re not a sort we want to associate with much—but what I can’t bear with any quietness at all, is his telling Franky our bill was running pretty high this morning when I sent him for some meal—and that was all he said, too—didn’t give him the meal—turned off and went to talking with the Hargrave girls about some stuff they wanted to cheapen.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Chance encounters, or even the repeated mention of her name, would send his thoughts back into grooves from which he had resolutely detached them; whereas, if she could be entirely excluded from his life, the pressure of new and varied impressions, with which no thought of her was connected, would soon complete the work of separation.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

[180] Table IV—Analysis of Santos Coffee Extract (Dry Basis) Ether extract, fixed 1.06% Total nitrogen 1.06% Caffein 1.06% Crude fiber 1.06% Total ash 1.06% Reducing sugar 1.06% Caffetannic acid 1.06% Protein 1.06% It is difficult to make the trade terms, such as acidity, astringency, etc., used in describing a cup of coffee, conform with the [Pg 169] chemical meanings of the same terms.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The ceremony was, in fact, a charm to ensure the growth of the corn by sympathetic magic, and we may conjecture that as such it was practised in a simple form by every Egyptian farmer on his fields long before it was adopted and transfigured by the priests in the stately ritual of the temple.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He raised her and smiled with such kindness and affection that I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature; they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This sheaf, which remains standing in the field after the Rice-soul has been carried home and put to bed, is treated as a newly-made mother; that is to say, young shoots of trees are pounded together and scattered broadcast every evening for three successive days, and when the three days are up you take the pulp of a coco-nut and what are called “goat-flowers,” mix them up, eat them with a little sugar, and spit some of the mixture out among the rice.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

That institutions dictated by the spirit of religion, and destined either to propagate our religion, or to elevate its splendour, have not always found in their object a preservative against the corruption attached to human beings, is a truth established by numberless examples; but that fanaticism or the genius of evil, should be sufficiently powerful to extinguish in childhood the natural sentiment of its weakness, and draw it away from its natural supports, to inspire it with this train of ideas, this perseverance in resolutions, this accordance required by every enterprise formed by a numerous concourse of individuals, is what we can scarcely believe, although the memory of the fact is preserved by several historians.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

But it would have been equally easy for them, while concentrating troops opposite our front, to manoeuvre them in the same way opposite the French.
— from Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

Previously to this period, the high in station, Sir Harford Jones, Baronet, Envoy Extraordinary from the English Government, came to this Court, to form an amicable alliance, and in conjunction with the Plenipotentiaries of Persia, their Excellencies (titles) Meerza Mahomed Sheffeeh and Hajee Mahomed Hussein Khan, concluded a preliminary treaty, the particulars of which were to be detailed and arranged in a definitive treaty; and the above-mentioned treaty, according to its articles, was ratified by the British Government.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

Mark Twain's publishers had feared this, and asked that the story be especially edited for the English edition.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Mark Twain

The larvæ of some beetle, as appears from the description, seem to have been ejected even from the lungs .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

I bought bass easily enough for my hostess, great things still alive and bleeding from women's temple.
— from A Woman In China by Mary Gaunt

Rain is far from abundant, and droughts may be expected every few years.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

He was very well liked by the king, but hated by everyone else, for he was wicked both in will and deed.
— from The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang