you distinguish well: Casting of money may be lawful.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

"Now, it's a very singular circumstance, your ladyship," says Mr. Guppy, "though one of those circumstances that do fall in the way of us professional men—which I may call myself, for though not admitted, yet I have had a present of my articles made to me by Kenge and Carboy, on my mother's advancing from the principal of her little income the money for the stamp, which comes heavy—that I have encountered the person who lived as servant with the lady who brought Miss Summerson up before Mr. Jarndyce took charge of her.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

And much I miss those sportive boys, Companions of my mountain joys, Just at the age ’twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

An infinitive , with or without a complement or modifiers, may be used as the subject of a sentence, as a predicate nominative , or as an appositive (pp. 134, 135).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

It cannot be said, on the ordinary view of creation, that there has not been time for the creation of mammals; many volcanic islands are sufficiently ancient, as shown by the stupendous degradation which they have suffered and by their tertiary strata: there has also been time for the production of endemic species belonging to other classes; and on continents it is thought that mammals appear and disappear at a quicker rate than other and lower animals.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

But erring from its aim, the impetuous spear Struck to the dust the squire and charioteer Of martial Merion: Coeranus his name, Who left fair Lyctus for the fields of fame.
— from The Iliad by Homer

An old and devoted servant was the first to find out our connection and the condition of my mistress, and she told her that she felt in duty bound to tell her father, but my sweetheart succeeded in making her promise to be silent, saying that in the course of the week she herself would tell him through her confessor.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Why nothing capital of my master's wardrobe has drop'd lately—but I could give you a mortgage on some of his winter Cloaths with equity of redemption before November or—you shall have the reversion—of the French velvet, or a post obit on the Blue and Silver—these I should think Moses—with a few Pair of Point Ruffles as a collateral security—hey, my little Fellow? MOSES.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

This is a Coppye of Mr. Mullens his Will of all particulars he hathe given.
— from The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Volume 6 by Azel Ames

TO THE GOLDEN WIFE With laughter always on the darkest day, She danced before the very face of dread, Starry companion of my mortal way, Pre-destined merrily to be my mate, With eyes as calm, she met the eyes of Fate:
— from A Jongleur Strayed Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane by Richard Le Gallienne

It included the nomination of the highest magistrate in every city; the supreme jurisdiction in appeals and criminal causes; the control of mints, markets, and highways; and rights of purveyance and taxation.
— from Medieval Europe by H. W. Carless (Henry William Carless) Davis

V. MANTLINGS 139 Origin of Mantlings; Simple early forms; Colours of Mantlings; Medieval usage as to colours of Mantlings.
— from Heraldry for Craftsmen & Designers by Hope, W. H. St. John (William Henry St. John), Sir

For the first year or so the feeling was quite general that military affairs should be directed by 367 Congress, acting through its Committee on the Conduct of the War, and by the Secretary of War, who complained bitterly that he was not allowed to assume control of military movements and that his plans were thwarted by McClellan (whom he especially hated).
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

Aye, aye, I mind—what's comin' o' my memory?
— from The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Giacinta, you must know, acts as my secretary and copies out my manuscripts."
— from The Passport by Richard Bagot

Three or four gipsies, by the express command of Meg Merrilies, mingled in the crowd when the custom-house was attacked, for the purpose of liberating Bertram, which he had himself effected.
— from Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete by Walter Scott

I have abated much in my household expenses, in my navies, and the charge of my munition."
— from Charles I Makers of History by Jacob Abbott