Capt. Lewis informing me of his Situation at the upper Village, and had precured 22 horses for our rout through by land on the plan which I had preposed in which he agreed with me in; and requsted me to ride up and get the horses the Indian informed him they had reserved for me &c.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I believe I am more nice than many gentlemen; but it is because I have been a close observer of the behaviour of wedded folks, and hardly ever have seen it to be such as I could like in my own case.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It was useless to prolong the discussion: everybody knew the melancholy fate of the few gentlemen who had risked their clean linen in municipal or state politics in New York.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

In this way we can live in Mars over one thousand years before we are transferred to a higher star.
— from Ruth's Marriage in Mars: A Scientific Novel by Glass, Charles Wilder, Mrs.

When the order came, pretty nearly every Kaffir in this colony left instantly, many of them leaving considerable arrears of wages behind.
— from The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Adventure by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I can look into my own conscience with satisfaction, and am prepared for the worst.
— from Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

It is unsafe at present to generalize regarding the differences between country and city life in matters of sex, but it is certainly true, when rural life is empty of commanding interests and when it is coarsened by low traditions and the presence of defective persons, that there is a precocious emphasis of sex.
— from Rural Problems of Today by Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves

It is rather odd that just the amount that he wished to be used by the North for the advancement of the Union cause has recently (1901) been bequeathed to the Essex Institute at Salem by Miss Elizabeth C. Ward, his lately deceased sister, to found a Chinese library in memory of Salem's soldier of fortune.
— from The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees by Mary Caroline Crawford

The schools of this city close late in May or early in June.
— from Harper's Round Table, January 14, 1896 by Various

You shall have as much money as you want, I can promise that for the Prince of Gonzague, and you can live in Madrid or where you please with your pretty minion. Make a bargain, man, and shake hands on it.
— from The Duke's Motto: A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy