He lingered behind, until Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass had disappeared, and then fervently clenched Mr. Pickwick’s hand, with an expression of face in which deep and mighty resolve was fearfully blended with the very concentrated essence of gloom.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

the Earl of Grosvenor
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

And that is, if thou wilt make the exchange of garments with Lord Athelstane instead of me.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Practically, however, you all recognize the difference: you understand, for example, the disdain of the Methodist convert for the mere sky-blue healthy-minded moralist; and you likewise enter into the aversion of the latter to what seems to him the diseased subjectivism of the Methodist, dying to live, as he calls it, and making of paradox and the inversion of natural appearances the essence of God's truth.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Your Society, your Household, practical or spiritual Arrangement, is untrue, unjust, offensive to the eye of God and man.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

At the beginning of the ninth century the donee has power to leave the property to whomsoever he will, or, in still broader terms, to exchange or grant in his lifetime, and after his death to leave it to whom he chooses,—or to sell, exchange, and leave to whatsoever heir he chooses.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fitness being the basis of beauty, nobody could have denied that his steady swings and turns in and about the flock had elements of grace.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

During the night, when all the people at the inn were gone to bed, some one was heard to sigh so deeply and painfully, and the sighing continued for so long a time, that every one got up to see what could be the matter.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And these two cases he instances in, differ little from those above mentioned, to be destructive to governments, only that he has omitted the principle from which his doctrine flows: and that is, the breach of trust, in not preserving the form of government agreed on, and in not intending the end of government itself, which is the public good and preservation of property.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

I could have jumped up and slain him on the spot with the jigger, for every English person in that hotel every night for three weeks past had exclaimed on glancing at the “Times”: “Looks bad!”
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett

Now all such sort of confederacy with such malignant enemies of God and of the church, is unlawful, as Mr. Gillespie demonstrates in his useful case of conscience, concerning associations and confederacies with idolaters, or any known enemies of truth and godliness.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

Beyond the limits of the Leman, the Alps shot up into still higher pinnacles, occasionally showing one of those naked excrescences of granite, which rise for a thousand feet above the rest of the range--a trifle in the stupendous scale of the vast piles--and which, in the language of the country are not inaptly termed Dents, from some fancied and plausible resemblance to human teeth.
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

"It is not the intention of this order to change at all the relations between yourself and the military departments under your command, to require your personal presence at a point where public considerations demand the exercise of great discretion and prudence...."
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright

Then we have the familiar record of the exportation of gold; of the Bank of England and provincial banks deluging the country with notes.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins

187° east of Greenwich.
— from Light Science for Leisure Hours A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

THE END End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Green Bays.
— from Green Bays. Verses and Parodies by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Other military orders, which never extended to England, were the order of Teutonic Knights , a fraternity similar to that of the Templars, but consisting entirely of Germans; and the order of Our Lady of Mercy , a Spanish knightly order in imitation of that of the Trinitarians.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

Others, the new ones especially, often gave out and had to be sent for, or came in an hour late to be most severely and irritatingly ragged by the host.
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

The highways begin to swarm with people that press and pour in from the hundred little yards and colonnades and alleys of which the old city has so many; they are men and women of the peasantry from without the walls, of the smaller tradesmen, from within—the people who, in all nations, would rather stand breathless for hours in a throng than miss the exultation of giving the first shout for the first rumour of a pageant’s approach.
— from North Italian Folk: Sketches of Town and Country Life by Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr