"But the most shocking case that came under my immediate notice was that of a woman seeking employment.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

Carried beyond the bounds of prudence, I told him, that I would no longer be subjected to such degrading tyranny; that his deceitful conduct had cancelled all ties of obligation between us; that the favours lately conferred upon me, I now saw had only been bestowed to effect my ruin; that he had been acting a base and treacherous game with me to further his own dishonest views; that I was fully aware of his motives, and appreciated them as they deserved; that he well knew the story of my illegitimacy was a forgery, that I had the means to prove it one, and would do it shortly; that the term of my articles would expire on the following day, and I would then leave his house for ever and seek my own living.
— from The Monctons: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 2) by Susanna Moodie

But it is pleasant to put on record the description of an officer's servant which has reached Mr. Punch from France: "Valet, cook, porter, boots, chamber-maid, ostler, carpenter, upholsterer, mechanic, inventor, needlewoman, coalheaver, diplomat, barber, linguist (home-made), clerk, universal provider, complete pantechnicon and infallible bodyguard, he is also a soldier, if a very old soldier, and a man of the most human kind."
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

It is true that the "Come unto me" is not distinctly expressed, but it is surely struggling for expression.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

I have here counted up mercies in number nine.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

When he called upon me in New York he expressed himself as more anxious to return to Pittsburgh than to revisit Germany.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

7:14 — “ else were your children unclean ” —clearly intimate the naturally impure state of infants; and Mat. 19:14 — “ Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me ” —is not only consistent with this doctrine, but strongly confirms it; for the meaning is: “ forbid them not to come unto me ” —whom they need as a Savior.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

The Lord said to Abram—" I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; if not, I will know. ”
— from A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion Principal Historical Facts and Personages of the Books Known as The Old and New Testament; With Remarks on the Morality of Nature by Benjamin Offen

A moment's miscalculation, and skiff and voyager alike are whelming in the green chaos below, and come up mangled into nothing, far away down yonder upon the white turbulent foam. '
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

He called upon me in New York, and I advised him to come to you, knowing that your leading printer had died."
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer