There were various opinions about Adam's speech: some of the women whispered that he didn't show himself thankful enough, and seemed to speak as proud as could be; but most of the men were of opinion that nobody could speak more straightfor'ard, and that Adam was as fine a chap as need to be.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

I cannot settle my spirits to it.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

As breaks the sun through cloudy skies, My spirit caught a brighter tone.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The back doors of the Winesburg stores were open and he could see men sitting about under the store lamps.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

‘I don’t ask the reason of this change, Gilbert,’ said she, with bitter calmness: ‘I know it too well; but though I could see myself suspected and condemned by every one else, and bear it with calmness, I cannot endure it from you.—Why did you not come to hear my explanation on the day I appointed to give it?’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

: mid-morwen , mid-morning, S; mid-morwetide , SD; mid-ouernon , middle of the afternoon; hei midouernon , fully the middle of the afternoon, S2; midewinter , Christmas, S2; midwinterdæi , sb.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

You know the tale of Hercules Gallus, Orpheus, and Amphion, felices animas Ovid calls them, that could saxa movere sono testudinis , &c. make stocks and stones, as well as beasts and other animals, dance after their pipes: the dog and hare, wolf and lamb; vicinumque lupo praebuit agna latus; clamosus graculus, stridula cornix, et Jovis aquila , as Philostratus describes it in his images, stood all gaping upon Orpheus; and [3478] trees pulled up by the roots came to hear him, Et comitem quercum pinus amica trahit .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Yes, and bread and cheese,” said Melchior, smiling.
— from The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by George Manville Fenn

And now was a most wicked deed done by those who claimed to be in command of our company, for they declared that my master had laid a plot with some of the men in each vessel of the fleet, whereby the principal members of the company were to be murdered, to the end that Captain Smith might set himself up as king after we were come to the new world.
— from Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony by James Otis

Wherefore in order for a man to be like his grandfather, there is no need that the corporeal seminal matter should have been in the grandfather; but that there be in the semen a virtue derived from the soul of the grandfather through the father.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The King, however, let it be known to Christoffer Urne that he was opposed to the match, and the house was closed to Ulrik Frederik, who henceforth could see Mistress Sofie only by stealth.
— from Marie Grubbe, a Lady of the Seventeenth Century by J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen

Their stories received corroboration by the fact that we could see many shells bursting in and around the city of Ypres.
— from Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather

What can I do for you?" "'Scuse me, suh," she continued, when she had sat down on the edge of a chair, "'scuse me, suh, I's lookin' for my husban'.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

If a woman embraces catholicism, she may seek tolerance, but she has no right to exact conformity.
— from On Compromise by John Morley

Oftentimes the guests reached the window, panting, and out of breath from having to climb so many steps, but they always exclaimed, "How glad I am that I came!
— from In Story-land by Elizabeth Harrison