A grave elderly lady of great erudition and modesty, who visits these young ladies, seemed to be extremely shocked by the apprehensions, that she was to appear naked before the whole world; and no less so, that all mankind was to appear naked before her; which might so much divert her thoughts, as to incapacitate her to give ready and apt answers to the interrogatories that might be made her.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift

and so good 'at it made me think so fur back in the past I seemed to be a little boy agin; and seemed like her thin gray hair was brown and a-shinin' in the sun as it used to do when she helt me on her shoulder in the open door, when Father was a-livin' and we used to go to meet him at the bars; seemed like her face was young agin, and a-smilin' like it allus used to be, and her eyes as full o' hope and happiness as afore they ever looked on grief er ever shed a tear.
— from Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley

Concise statements of facts are always valuable, but we have none such concerning the early life of George Eliot.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard

And those shall have all the liberties & Christian usages w ch y e law of god established in Jsraell concerning such p/ sons doeth morally require.
— from The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

At the back of the house is “a large, old-fashioned farm-house garden, where flowers, vegetables, fruits and trees grow in friendly confusion—just the kind of garden in which Hetty Sorrel gathered red currants.”— Deakin , Early Life of G. E. , p. 5, 9.
— from George Eliot Centenary, November 1919 Catalogue of Relics, Manuscrips, Prints, Paintings, Photographs & Books relating to George Eliot by Coventry (England). Public Libraries Committee

Accordingly, on the 4th of February 1894, a protocol—which, some weeks later, was confirmed by a convention— was signed at Berlin, by which France accepted the presence of Germany on Lake Chad as a fait accompli and effected the best bargain she could by making the left bank of the Shari river, from its outlet into Lake Chad to the 10th parallel of north latitude, the eastern limit of German extension.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

[Pg 113] It seemed, however, to quiet the brain and nerves as if by magic; nor am I aware that any injurious effects, either local or general, ever followed its exhibition.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

In the life of the only perfect Man that ever lived, our great Example and Master, we do not see this impatience of contradiction: ‘When He was reviled, He reviled not again;’ and if He, the Lord of all, could condescend to endure such contradiction of sinners against Himself, shall it be too much for us to bear a little with the contradiction of our fellow-creatures?
— from Louis' School Days: A Story for Boys by E. J. (Edith J.) May

It happened, however, that no extreme loss of gas ensued, and he commenced descending with a speed which, though considerable, was not very excessive.
— from The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation by John M. (John Mackenzie) Bacon