Still, that misdemeanour must be committed; and poor Silas, after peering all round the hedgerows, traversed the grass, beginning with perturbed vision to see Eppie behind every group of red sorrel, and to see her moving always farther off as he approached.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

, to give or offer anything that is not wanted by either giver or receiver is to pass a NORTH COUNTRY COMPLIMENT.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Then turning to Conway, he gave him a lecture such as no mortal before ever gave or received.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Eight young men, accompanied by eight girls of remarkable beauty, arrived, and ordered a private room, where they were served with a sumptuous repast.
— from Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten by Marie Corelli

Let us now, by extracts, give our readers an idea of the manner in which Mr. Von Ross describes the land of his birth to the land of his adoption.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

These nitre plantations are set up in those localities where the manure is not required for the fertilisation of the soil, as, for example, in the south-eastern ‘black earth’ Governments of Russia.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

It was a holding which had been wrested from the grip of a surrounding bog by earlier generations of Raffertys, who were a strenuous race; but in Ody's father's time their energies had taken a turn not conducive to reclamation, or even to the maintenance of what was already won.
— from Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow

"There's been enough goin' on recent, ma'am, to let everybody know that something was pretty wrong.
— from The Last Straw by Harold Titus