Surely if any man in France is in straights this night, it is Mayor Petion: bound, under pain of death, one may say, to smile dexterously with the one side of his face, and weep with the other;—death if he do it not dexterously enough!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

X. That, although the said Warren Hastings did make the foregoing application a new charge against the Resident, Middleton, yet the said Hastings did only criminate the said Middleton for a proposal tending "at such a crisis to increase the number of our enemies," and did in no degree, either in his articles of charge or in his accompanying minutes, express any disapprobation whatever of the principle; that, in truth, the whole proceedings of the said Resident were the natural result of the treaty of Chunar; that the said proceedings were from time to time communicated to the said Hastings; that, as he nowhere charges any disobedience of orders on Mr. Middleton with respect to Fyzoola Khân, it may be justly inferred that the said Hastings did not interfere to check the proceedings of the said Middleton on that subject; and that by such criminal neglect the said Hastings did make the guilt of the said Middleton, whatever it might be, his own.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Hunferd disse, il nato di Eclaf, 500 che a’ piedi sedea del prence de’ Schildinghi, sbrigliò accenti di contesta—eragli la gita di Beóvulf, del coraggioso navigatore, molto a fastidio, perchè non amava, che un altro uomo vieppiù di gloria nell’ orbe di mezzo 505 avesse sotto il cielo che lui stesso—: ‘Sei tu quel Beóvulf, che con Breca nuotò 89 nel vasto pelago per gara marina, quando voi per baldanza l’acque provaste, e per pazzo vanto nel profondo sale 510 la vita arrischiaste?
— from The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

"And my dress is nearly dry!" exclaimed Sue.
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store by Laura Lee Hope

Why did I not die ere this fatal news had reached me?
— from Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life by Rebecca Agatha Armour

But does it not denote extreme poverty of thought to introduce personalities into every conversation? Let them rather be illustrations, and thus stepping-stones to something higher and more edifying.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The dress is no doubt extremely convenient: it admits of walking in mud or snow, and allows freedom of exercise; and it is entirely modest.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

he would whine out, “can't 'ee keep quiet your old fleece now? Isn't this old coon putting out to save 'ee from the darned Injuns now, do 'ee hyar?”
— from Life in the Far West by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton

[47] Dewey's interpretation of Kant's doctrine as presented in the 'Deductions' is no doubt essentially correct.
— from John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard

Did it not disappear entirely?
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

The propriety, however, of this delay entirely depends upon the head being opened in the beginning of labour: for if we do not perform the first part of this operation till the labour has been protracted so long as that the woman’s strength begins to fail, we must expedite the delivery as speedily as possible, otherwise, the danger which we wish to avoid, will infallibly be incurred: no woman can suffer continued labour beyond a certain period without fever, inflammation, and the most imminent danger, if not death ensuing.” (Osborn’s Essays on the Practice of Midwifery .)
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby