No one, therefore, is dying unless living; since even he who is in the last extremity of life, and, as we say, giving up the ghost, yet lives.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

One of his friends 'hoped that they might, as habitual visitors, escape hearing the usual endless story of the silly old woman that showed the ruins'; but Scott answered, 'There is a pleasure in the song which none but the songstress knows, and by telling her we know it all ready we should make the poor devil unhappy.' Lockharts Scott , ed. 1839, ii. 106.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

The trouble can be reduced or eliminated by one or more of the following precautions: ( a ) receiving only clean, sweet milk at the cheese factory; ( b ) maintaining the proper relation between the moisture and acidity; ( c ) adding the rennet at the proper acidity; ( d ) using less starter; ( e ) adding the rennet extract so that there will be sufficient time to firm the curd before the acid has developed to such a stage that it will be necessary to draw the whey; ( f ) producing the proper final water-content in the newly made cheese.
— from The Book of Cheese by Charles Thom

Theodora insisted, and the drawings were produced: all the best had been done under Lord St. Erme’s instruction.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It is not my pride that is wounded: the little pride I ever possessed has been pretty well taken out of me by the drudgery of life ere this; but that such deep, unselfish love, such entire boundless trust, should have been thus bitterly deceived, thus heartlessly rejected, and by one who seemed all truth, innocence, and gentleness—Oh!
— from The Fortunes of the Colville Family; or, A Cloud with its Silver Lining by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley