During the preceding hour or two Malcolm's face had worn its brightest and most youthful aspect—the society of Cedric had roused him and taken him out of himself; but as he approached the handsome and imposing-looking house where his mother lived, his countenance resumed its normal gravity.
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Mr. Worthy, from which I dare say, great folks fancy people in our station are safe enough, if I did not know and lament that this corrupt reading is now got down even among some of the lowest class.
— from The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales by Hannah More

Continued slow global growth and serious political tensions in the Middle East could result in negative growth in 2004.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[v] TO MY YOUNGEST SON GRENVILLE ARTHUR AND TO ALL OTHER GOOD LITTLE BOYS COME READ ME MY RIDDLE, EACH GOOD LITTLE MAN; IF YOU CANNOT READ IT, NO GROWN-UP FOLK CAN.
— from The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley

[W: wintering] That the common reading is not good English, I cannot perceive, and therefore find in myself no temptation to change it.
— from Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson

Without iron the commonalty be not sure against enemies, without dread of iron the common right is not governed; with iron innocent men are defended: and fool-hardiness of wicked men is chastised with dread of iron.
— from Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century

of the cultivated rubber is now grown in British colonies or on British plantations in the Dutch East Indies.
— from Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

Cusawati is an affluent of Upper Coosa river, in northwestern Georgia, a tract
— from A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, vol. 1 With a Linguistic, Historic and Ethnographic Introduction by Albert S. (Albert Samuel) Gatschet

Hence the work can result in no good, and may possibly, unless its baneful influence is counteracted, originate much evil.
— from A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward