He meant her (thanks to his enlightening companionship) to develop a social tact and readiness of wit enabling her to hold her own with the most popular married women of the "younger set," in which it was the recognised custom to attract masculine homage while playfully discouraging it.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

You know she was the p. 46 rector’s daughter, and somehow they are related to Sir Peter Arley:
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it, and so it proves different to different men; to one it is barren, dull, and superficial; to another rich, interesting, and full of meaning.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

You know she was the Rector’s daughter, and somehow they are related to Sir Peter Arley:
— from Mrs. Gaskell by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Luke VI, 38: “Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom.”
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

A smiling colored waiter—“at so much per smile,” as Ruth whispered—welcomed them at the door and seated them at rather a large table.
— from Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie; Or, Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Alice B. Emerson

Its decisions are subject to a review by the Court of Appeal, whose decision is to be final, unless it gives leave to carry it up to the House of Lords itself.
— from Our Railroads To-Morrow by Edward Hungerford

Formerly, it was deemed almost sacrilegious to allow reason to intrude into such a sacred domain.
— from Love's Final Victory Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason by Horatio

As they washed the dishes and stacked them away, Rosanna mentioned again that she did not feel comfortable about making such free use of her unknown uncle’s property.
— from Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key by Joan Clark

On the way down the mountain we had a mishap; one of the teamsters struck a boulder and broke a wheel, which caused delay and we were obliged to cut down a small tree and rig up a drag to get the wagon back to the camp.
— from Ten years in the ranks, U.S. Army by Augustus Meyers

The number of regimental and headquarters wagons was cut down to the lowest possible figure, and everything made compact by turning into the supply and ammunition trains of the division all surplus transportation, and restricting the personal baggage of officers to the fewest effects possible.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete by Philip Henry Sheridan