Though now the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ may be preached to them freely, and for nothing; nay, they are now desired to hear and receive it: though now they will not own, regard, or embrace these Christian proffers of the glorious truth of Jesus, because they come out of some of the basest earthen vessels; yet the time is coming, when they will both sigh and cry, Send him to my father's house (1 Cor 1:26).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

The Boer estimates vary, yet we do not hesitate to state that not more, but rather less, than 50,000 Boers were ever in the field.
— from In the Shadow of Death by P. H. (Pieter Hendrick) Kritzinger

The functional derangements may arise from insufficient activity, the result of general or local debility; from a deranged condition of the digestive organs; from passions or affections of the mind; from hereditary temperament, constitution, or peculiarity; from the patient’s age, being either very young or considerably advanced in years, and pregnant for the first time; from plethora, general or local; from rheumatic affection of the uterus; and from uterine inflammation.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

Have you had any conversation with him?” Alarmed at her eagerness, and still more at seeing by her looks the sleepless night she had passed, he made at first no reply; and when, with increasing impatience, she repeated her question, he only said, “Has Belfield ever visited you since he had the honour of meeting you at my house?”
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

See the very curious book, entitled Vida y Virtudes del Venerable Siervo de Dios D. Juan de Ribera , por el R. P. Fr.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

He jumped about in his big boots, exclaiming: "Vat your vife say if she see you in ze water?
— from A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire by Harold Harvey