“I should be most happy, sir, to obey orders,” said the little Cambridge man, bowing; [183] “only I hold the identical commission, ounce of practice and all, for your benefit, my good sir, and that of all the other juniors.”
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Why should we not be like the apostle in his confident outburst of praise and assurance, 'For I am persuaded…'?"
— from Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone

Make a wreath of leaves cut out of paste, and a flower or knot for the centre; place them on the top-crust; and bake the pie well.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

He cuts off one pearl after another from the string.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by William Alexander

For a couple of hours we passed through that kind of country, then came out onto prairies, and as far as the eye could reach the same sparse population, mud huts, and ugly graves, but all tilled like a well-kept garden.
— from A Yankee in the Far East by George Hoyt Allen

Are you aware, Lanty”—and here as the youth spoke his voice became low and whispering—“are you aware that Talbot is an agent of the French Government—that he is over here to report on the condition of our party, and arrange for the rising?” “Is it in earnest you are?” cried Lanty, with an expression of admirably dissembled astonishment.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

But similar enzymes, acids, poisons, etc., to those found in fungi are also found in the cells of other plants and animals; for only by means of their solvent actions can processes like digestion and assimilation of the starchy and other materials into the body-substance be accomplished, and we have seen that it is a general property of living cells to form acids, and other excretions and secretions.
— from Disease in Plants by H. Marshall (Harry Marshall) Ward

So Patty stayed at home, in obedience to rural superstition, and Jael stayed to keep her company, and Farmer Dence went to church out of piety; and as for Henry, to tell the truth, he went to church to escape the girls' tongues, and to be in a quiet, somniferous place, where he could think out his plans undisturbed.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

I’ve just come out of prison, and am flung on the world to be kicked about like a dog and starve.
— from The Garret and the Garden; Or, Low Life High Up by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Black Tom's public house, with a select corps of old particular acquaintances, all from the South Seas, and all patrons of a long yarn, a short pipe, and glasses round.
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson