”—At which words he laid violent hands on the collar of poor Partridge, and shook him more heartily than an ague-fit, or his own fears had ever done before.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:—“Day its fervid fires had wasted,” and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I am quite certain that, if my learned friends had found in the circumstances of this case nothing which removed it out of the category of the heinous crime of private plunder at sea, exposing property and life, and breaking up commerce, they would have found nothing in the fact that a ship's crew was brought in for trial, and that the number of that crew amounted to twelve men, that should be pressed to the disturbance of your serene judgment, in any disposition of the case.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

She kept the child in continual remembrance of him by talking of him, and by making her recognize the photographs in which Bartley had abundantly perpetuated himself; at night, when she folded the little one's hands for prayer, she made her pray God to take care of poor papa and send him home soon to mamma.
— from A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells

The reason consists in the coarseness of particular passages and sentences.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Various

Pethion, in the commune of Paris, presents a silver sword to Réne Audu, a heroine of the 6th of October 1789.
— from Historical Epochs of the French Revolution With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death by Henry Goudemetz

These generally consist of pilaster panels and strips, and anybody who can execute these in detail can have them made up.
— from A Manual of Wood Carving by Charles Godfrey Leland

"They saw the company of prophets prophesying, and Samuel over them."
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

I stated, that I had represented the State of Mississippi in the Senate of the United States from January, 1836, until March, 1845, when, having resigned that office, I was called to the Cabinet of President Polk, as Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and remained in that position until the close of that administration in March, 1849.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various