“I will not flatter you, child,” cries Allworthy; “I fear your case is desperate: I never saw stronger marks of an unalterable resolution in any person than appeared in her vehement declarations against receiving your addresses; for which, perhaps, you can account better than myself.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

At first he made us, but it cost him nothing but a word, but now, to buy that which was taken captive by sin, and at so dear a rate,— “ye are bought with a price, and this price more precious than the sum of heaven and earth could amount to.”
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

In these galleries, at short distances, are ragged yawning apertures, all formed by the hand of man, where stand the cannon upon neat slightly raised pavements of small flint stones, each with its pyramid of bullets on one side, and on the other a box, in which is stowed the gear which the gunner requires in the exercise of his craft.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

2. “Memoria de algunos arbitrios que pueden darse en las Indias de muy grande utilidad á la hazienda Real, y sin daño de aquellos Reynos y algunos en util beneficio suyo.” Beg. : ‘Lo primero que todos los officios,’ n.d. (4 ff.)
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Ah! sir, your father did not keep his book-room then, but would be in the great chamber aloft, with you and your lady mother and the nurse, laughing at your new-found words and ditties, and riding you and fondling you—God save us!—as a man who had never lived till then.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

Where you do not obtain from a reputable, intelligent Christian physician the information you desire, or the relief you seek, do not make [Pg 191] the fatal mistake of resorting to some quack or impostor who advertises only to beguile, deceive and rob you, and subsequently to leave you humiliated, with purse depleted and health ruined.
— from What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall

Real y sin daño de aquellos Reynos, y algunos en util y beneficio suyo;” n.d.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos