"Were I to do so, my grandfather would not rest quiet in his grave!"
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As Miss Bart reached the avenue, however, she saw a smart phaeton with a high-stepping pair disappear behind the shrubbery in the direction of the gate; and on the doorstep stood Mrs. Gormer, with a glow of retrospective pleasure on her open countenance.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

wind rose at 10 oClock and blowed from the W. S. W. very pleasent all day Several men geathering grapes &c. two men after the horses which Strayed the night before last.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I one Day shewed Monsieur Gombaud a Composition of this Nature, in which among others I had made use of the four following Rhymes, Amaryllis, Phillis, Marne, Arne, desiring him to give me his Opinion of it.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

During the voyage, I discovered so many good qualities in my wife that I began to love her more and more.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

It's my duty, Susan." Mrs. Garth was not given to tears, but there was a large one rolling down her face before her husband had finished.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"Mary would not be happy without doing her duty," said Mrs. Garth, magisterially, conscious of having done her own.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

They all seemed to stare; and Sir Simon said, No more nor less, I dare say, my good friend, but a bastard-child.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

while Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes night hideous—answer him, ye owls.' To this the poet adds the following note: 'James Ralph, a name inserted after the first editions, not known till he writ a swearing-piece called Sawney , very abusive of Dr. Swift, Mr. Gay, and myself.'" VI FIRST VISIT TO LONDON HE governor, seeming to like my company, had me frequently to his house, and his setting me up was always mention'd as a fixed thing.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

"My dear," said Mr. Garie, "this is our neighbour, Mrs. Stevens."
— from The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

My own view is that we have never yet got from the garden, and, above all, the home landscape, half the beauty which we may get by abolishing the needless formality and geometry which disfigure so many gardens, both as regards plan and flower planting.
— from Garden Design and Architects' Gardens Two reviews, illustrated, to show, by actual examples from British gardens, that clipping and aligning trees to make them 'harmonise' with architecture is barbarous, needless, and inartistic by W. (William) Robinson

"The tail shares the same illusions as the dog," said Miss Grantham.
— from Dodo: A Detail of the Day. Volumes 1 and 2 by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The purchasing power lost by the working classes should be gained by the capitalist class; if v decreases, s must grow larger to make up for it.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

Madame, how have I deserved so much goodness on your part?
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue

“The matter of his discourse,” said Mr Gosport, “is not more singular than the manner, for without any seeming effort or consciousness, he runs into blank verse perpetually.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

“I don’t know what I am to do,” said Mr. Greene, and he began walking up and down the room; but still he did not call for pen and ink, and I began again to feel that he was a swindler.
— from The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box by Anthony Trollope