They tell us that these "infant" plants were followed by those of larger growth, specimens of which are found in layers of rock and clay nearer the surface, and are followed by remains of the "herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind"—for mummies of seed vessels and fruits have been found in coal-fields in many parts of the world.
— from Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

'You're not a bit repentant of the havoc you have wrought,' he cried dramatically.
— from The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Such was the joy of Maurice as he stood powerless, questioning the blissful reality of the hour, yet in the actual presence of that being who was never a moment absent from his mental vision.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

All predicates, all attributes of the Divine Being are fundamentally human; but as attributes of a personal being, and therefore of a being distinct from man and existing independently, they appear immediately to be really other than human, yet so as that at the same time the essential identity always remains at the foundation.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

As for "putting" the short strokes on the green, near the hole, if I hit sharp, the ball runs over the hole yards and yards beyond, or if I hit mild, it stops with an air of plaintive resignation, after dribbling for a foot or two.
— from Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 by Various

With some little show of reluctance she consented, but as they approached the last house on the mountainside she paused and said: "'I shall go no farther with you!' "'Why not?' asked he. "'Because I fear that when we have gone beyond reach of these houses you will kiss me.' "'Nay,' answered the man, 'do you not see that both hands are encumbered?
— from The Woman Who Vowed (The Demetrian) by Ellison Harding

"'Because I fear that now we are beyond reach of the houses, you will stick your staff in the [Pg 126] ground; you will put your cock under your pot, and you will kiss me.'
— from The Woman Who Vowed (The Demetrian) by Ellison Harding

Had you been in the back rooms of that house, you would have seen Kiku blush as the maid told her who was in the front room and what her father had said.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

Now, I don’t want to be rough, or to hurry you, especially as I have plenty of things to see about before we are married.
— from The Ghost Kings by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard