It does not stand immediately on the bank of the Missouri, but of the Charaton river, about seven hundred yards above its mouth.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1 by Thomas Say

Help Grandison down,—poor devil, he 's so stiff he can hardly move!—and get a tub of water and wash him and rub him down, and feed him, and give him a big drink of whiskey, and then let him come round and see his young master and his new mistress."
— from The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

The facts of statistics, since they have been made a subject of careful recordation and study, have yielded conclusions, some of which have been very startling to persons not accustomed to regard moral actions as subject to uniform laws.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

I do not know if I can renounce and still have you in my life.
— from The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Will Irwin

The Scots laundress entered accordingly, and having heard nothing of the last kind wish of Dame Suddlechop, made her reverence with considerable respect, and said, her young mistress had returned home unwell, and wished to see her neighbour, Dame Ursley, directly.
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott