The king would be better employed digesting a good government; everything gives way to their pleasures.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The washerwoman’s squat figure in its familiar cotton print seemed a passport for every barred door and grim gateway; even when he hesitated, uncertain as to the right turning to take, he found himself helped out of his difficulty by the warder at the next gate, anxious to be off to his tea, summoning him to come along sharp and not keep him waiting there all night.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The washerwoman's squat figure in its familiar cotton print seemed a passport for every barred door and grim gateway; even when he hesitated, uncertain as to the right turning to take, he found himself helped out of his difficulty by the warder at the next gate, anxious to be off to his tea, summoning him to come along sharp and not keep him waiting there all night.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

This was a task, we are bound to confess, in which they were not very successful; for the Indians eventually passed the limits the Spaniards had imposed on them, permanently established themselves on the ruins of the old Creole villages, and by degrees, and gaining ground each year, they reduced the territory of the Mexican Government in an extraordinary way.
— from Stronghand; or, The Noble Revenge by Gustave Aimard

How can you ask me if I despise, as great gossip, Emily's telling you that I am writing another tragedy!
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

M. Virey describes a German girl, exhibited in Paris in 1816.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

Sir John Dacre and Geoffrey grasped each other's hand with a firm grip, and looked into each other's eyes in silence for a moment.
— from The King's Men: A Tale of To-morrow by Robert Grant

But whatever it does or does not do, it is without doubt a gentle, graceful, elegant, and feminine occupation.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 991, December 24, 1898 by Various

I'll pay for the breakfast he gives me, by donning a gorgeous gold embroidered doublet which he once stole from somewhere, by putting my hand on my hip, tilting my hat at a becoming angle, and winking at him by the hour whilst he paints away."
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The sixth, "It is finished;" perhaps, not only as a fact on the true, the necessary value of the Christian scheme of redemption being so completed; but, more generally, to display the evils and dangers of leaving mental, spiritual, or even worldly good designs unfinished: a tale of natural procrastination conquered, difficulties overcome, prejudices broken down, and gigantic good effected: a Russian Peter, a literary Johnson, a missionary Neff, a Wesley, or a Henry Martyn.
— from An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages by Martin Farquhar Tupper