And yet you expect me to say I'm glad because of a fool woman who disarranges the whole house and calls it 'regulating,' and a man who aids and abets her in it, and calls it 'nursing,' to say nothing of the doctor who eggs 'em both on—and the whole bunch of them, meanwhile, expecting me to pay them for it, and pay them well, too!”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Her person and disposition were equally engaging; but chiefly I adored her for the greatness of the expectation, which, for my sake, she was willing to resign.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The daughter of Alexius applauds, with fond complacency, this artful gradation of hopes and honors; but the science of words is accessible to the meanest capacity; and this vain dictionary was easily enriched by the pride of his successors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Everybody drinks with everybody else, both in and out of the Fleet Prison.
— from The Flowing Bowl A Treatise on Drinks of All Kinds and of All Periods, Interspersed with Sundry Anecdotes and Reminiscences by Edward Spencer

WHEN the Templar and the English knight left the lodgings that had been assigned to them in the palace of Bagdad to enter the presence of the caliph, and were honoured with the audience described, Walter Espec, excited by the novelty of his situation, thinking of his lost brother, and bearing in mind that he had a mission to accomplish, strolled, heedless of rules or regulations, into the garden of the palace, and took his way along one of the walks, set in mosaic-coloured pebbles, towards the kiosk.
— from The Boy Crusaders: A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by John G. (John George) Edgar

The French, humiliated by defeat, were exceedingly elated by this restoration of the national honor.
— from Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

On the 9th, martial law was repealed; and from that moment no disturbance has again broken in upon the peace of the settlement of a serious nature, although it would be too much to suppose that the seeds of insubordination and disorder were entirely eradicated by the frustrated event of the first endeavour.
— from The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) by D. D. (David Dickinson) Mann

Forthwith appeared at his table, guided by those safe hands into which he had fallen, the very men who had best said, done, written, explored, excavated, built, launched, created, or studied that one thing—herders of books and prints in the British Museum; specialists in scarabs, cartouches, and dynasties Egyptian; rovers and raiders from the heart of unknown lands; toxicologists; orchid-hunters; monographers on flint implements, carpets, prehistoric man, or early Renaissance music.
— from The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Rudyard Kipling

It might be an example, which I desired to register, just as I was in the habit of doing with Early English Books; and when I had taken my note, and did not [Pg 280] care to invest, the bargain was open to the next comer.
— from The Confessions of a Collector by William Carew Hazlitt

In considering Mr Hart's proposal, "the question would be," according to Sir Rutherford Alcock, "Could we obtain a sufficient guarantee that such additional import due would effectually exempt British goods from all other dues, local, provincial, and what not?"
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

HAVE no means of judging what Washington may look like in sunny weather; sleet and rain having combined on my visit there, for a "spell" of the most detestable weather ever encountered by a traveller.
— from Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern by Fanny Fern

This was forgotten next day when Elinor, exhausted by a week of remorse, terror, rage, and suspense, became dangerously ill.
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

To get the ball down was easy enough, but to get it up the hill again was, on a hot day, too tremendous a task, and so the climb has now been made less exhausting by playing only across the shallower part of the ravine.
— from The Golf Courses of the British Isles by Bernard Darwin