In fact, many a man will carefully conceal any surplus so as to avoid the obligation of sharing it and yet escape the opprobrium attaching to meanness.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

,” said the dame, somewhat coldly; and, so soon as the adviser was out of hearing, was ungracious enough to mutter, in contempt of his council, “Marry quep of your advice, for an old Scotch tinsmith, as you are!
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott

It was on Sunday, October 7th, 1571, that the Christian fleet weighed anchor from Cephalonia and stood southwards along the Albanian coast, which is here fringed with rocky islets.
— from Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs by E. Hamilton (Edward Hamilton) Currey

Here the advocatus Diaboli will chuckle and say something about “tearing a passion to pieces.”
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

The writer of this sketch has no need to depend upon the evidence of others for the facts given; she has but to cross a shady street and tap at the most hospitable door in the wide world, to sit at her ease in the fine old library enriched by the gifts of a king, and talk with General Wallace or his wife.
— from Harper's Round Table, January 14, 1896 by Various

Spirit of mirth, whose chime of bells Shakes on his cap, and sweetly swells Across the Atlantic main, Grant that Mark’s laughter never die, That men, through many a century, May chuckle o’er Mark Twain!
— from Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes by Andrew Lang

To keep the eighteenth century habit, so carefully taught the girl, of courtesying as she stepped aside to allow the rider or the ox cart to pass, in these days of the swift automobile, which would be out of sight before the knee could bend, is no more ridiculous than to expect the average young mother to follow the methods of her grandmother.
— from Euthenics, the science of controllable environment A plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency by Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta) Richards

Believe me, a marriage contracted at so sad a time as this is of a much more solemn and sacred nature than if we married under different circumstances."
— from Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue