Nelson would have asked for a lieutenancy for Sykes, if he had served long enough; his manner and conduct, he observed, were so entirely above his situation, that Nature certainly intended him for a gentleman; but though he recovered from the dangerous wound which he received in this act of heroic attachment, he did not live to profit by the gratitude and friendship of his commander.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

His fastidious, critical habits of work supplied exactly that antidote which Elsmere's main faults of haste and carelessness required.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Slow to anger, quick to forgive, charitable in judgment and to mercy prone; with unbounded faith in the entire goodness of man and the complete holiness of woman; seeking ever for palliating circumstances in the conduct of the blackest criminal—we are at once a model of moderation and a pattern of forbearance.
— from The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce

Fire, gas, and smoke the result of chemical changes The chemist also knows this, but because he has compared his observations with similar events elsewhere, he is enabled to express his knowledge in the language of science.
— from Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 1 of 5 by Eugene Christian

His fastidious, critical habits of work supplied exactly the antidote which Elsmere’s main faults of haste and carelessness required.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Here is a region which was literally sown with great country houses of wealthy seigneurs; each ancient seigneurie of any importance whatever had its own little fortress or block-house which stood forth as an advance post at some distance from the residence of the overlord.
— from Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield