It was soon generally agreed that Tuesday should be the day; Charles only reserving the advantage of still teasing his wife, by persisting that he would go to the play to-morrow if nobody else would.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

I use these terms to distinguish this last case from another which might appear to resemble it, but which would, in fact, be essentially different; I mean where the exercise of a concurrent jurisdiction might be productive of occasional interferences in the POLICY of any branch of administration, but would not imply any direct contradiction or repugnancy in point of constitutional authority.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

If those nations whose social condition is democratic could only remain free as long as they are inhabitants of the wilds, we could not but despair of the future destiny of the human race; for democracy is rapidly acquiring a more extended sway, and the wilds are gradually peopled with men.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

There were even two or three outbreaks of applause when he spoke of serfdom and the distressed condition of Russia.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Before you stake your all on this chance; before you suffer yourself to be carried to the highest point of hope; reflect for a few moments, my dear child, on Rose's history, and consider what effect the knowledge of her doubtful birth may have on her decision: devoted as she is to us, with all the intensity of her noble mind, and with that perfect sacrifice of self which, in all matters, great or trifling, has always been her characteristic.' 'What do you mean?' 'That I leave you to discover,' replied Mrs. Maylie.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses; For pale they look with fear, as witnessing The truth on our side.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And with this dawning consciousness of race there is likewise coming an appreciation of the limitations and restrictions which hem in its unfolding and development.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

And why, admitting that it is necessary to set some limit to the wealth of women, should Crassus’s daughter, if she be his only child, inherit thousands without offending the law, while my daughter can only receive a small share in a bequest.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Instead of stop watches, therefore, we used a timing device capable of recording the most minute time-intervals with perfect precision.
— from Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Owing to the difficulty of securing accurate traffic data by means of a stop watch, an automatic, electrical timing device, capable of registering seconds and hundredths of a second, has been used in studying the performance of this system in regular operation at Ashtabula Harbor.
— from Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by American School of Correspondence

Lastly, supposing theses difficulties capable of removal, there yet remains a third, which consists in the undeniable absence of difference of velocity when the direction of oscillation is east and west.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

“I judged from Detective Ferguson's confidences to us, Kent, at the Club de Vingt that he was wanted by the police in connection with the Turnbull tragedy, but the facts brought out through Harding's action to attach Rochester's bank account, puts a different construction on Rochester's disappearance.”
— from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

Along the sides of the room, leaning against the walls, were crowded the poor wretches, miserable in dress, miserable in features, miserable in feelings—a more disgusting collection of ragged, greasy, unwashed prisoners were, probably, never before congregated within so small a space as the jail of Taos.
— from The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway by Henry Inman

After dinner copied out ‘Rebirth’ (Spring’s Advent) to send to Belford’s , and ‘The Sheik’ for N. Y. Independent .
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

I am required to perform a most difficult sacrifice; and forty years hence I may , by persisting so long, have some dim chance of reward.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey