I have shed many and bitter tears, to think that when I am gone from my children they cannot remember me with such entire satisfaction as I remembered my mother.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

My dear mother had some forebodings, I think, that our separation was to be a long one; for she told me that all night long she had been consulting the cards regarding my fate in the duel: and that all the signs betokened a separation; then, taking out a stocking from her escritoire, the kind soul put twenty guineas in a purse for me (she had herself but twenty-five), and made up a little valise, to be placed at the back of my mare, in which were my clothes, linen, and a silver dressing-case of my father’s.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

'What was the fate of the other—the child?' 'The child,' replied Monks, 'when her father died in a strange place, in a strange name, without a letter, book, or scrap of paper that yielded the faintest clue by which his friends or relatives could be traced—the child was taken by some wretched cottagers, who reared it as their own.' 'Go on,' said Mr. Brownlow, signing to Mrs. Maylie to approach.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The colourless granules of Florideae, which are supposed to constitute the carbohydrate reserve material, have been called floridean-starch.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

They are so modest, pure and fair; They are so very sweet, I fain would linger there and call Them clustering round my feet.
— from Contrasted Songs by Marian Longfellow

Of course, the clergy regard marriages and funerals as the perquisites of the pulpit, and they resent any interference on the part of the pews.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

[Pg 194] ceeded to call rebutting medical evidence to support the Crown contention that the accused was sane and aware of the nature of his acts.
— from The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

In most of these countries (the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Serbia and Russia are notorious examples) – state companies, the nation's only assets, were "sold" to political cronies, creating in the process a pernicious amalgam of capitalism and oligarchy, known as "crony capitalism" or privateering.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

Of this latter consist the Cinto range, Monte Rotondo and the rocks in the forest of Bavella.
— from Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads by C. B. Black

Oh! where can the child rest more quietly than on the mother's breast, where can the child be safer than in the circle of the father's arms?
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren