Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, “I have looked over it.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

If an officer asks for leave and is refused, he is said to be JUWAUBED ; if a gentleman unsuccessfully proposes for the hand of a lady, he is said to have got the JUWAUB .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

As they walked along the hillside Angel's former feeling revived in him—that whatever their advantages by comparison with himself, neither saw or set forth life as it really was lived.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

I thought the poor wretch was ruined for life, and I reproached myself with being the cause of her misfortune; for if I had not released the marquis from prison this could never have happened.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

From needing danger, to bee good, From owing thee yesterdaies teares to day, From trusting so much to thy blood, That in that hope, wee wound our soule away, 140 From bribing thee with Almes, to excuse Some sinne more burdenous, From light affecting, in religion, newes, From thinking us all soule, neglecting thus Our mutuall duties, Lord deliver us. XVII.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The first fact to which we call the attention of 155 the reader is that Christ, as the result of this narrative or parable, or whatever it may be, refers us to Moses and the prophets for light and information respecting the place and condition of the dead.
— from The state of the dead and the destiny of the wicked by Uriah Smith

She was allowed to enter after awhile, and the Pole's face lighted almost into rapture at sight of her.
— from Joyce's Investments: A Story for Girls by Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry

The barren tracts are, however, exceptional and a far larger area is richly fertile.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

What ground is there for throwing the odium of Servetus's death upon Calvin alone?—Why, the mild Melancthon wrote to Calvin[1], expressly to testify his concurrence in the act, and no doubt he spoke the sense of the German reformers; the Swiss churches advised the punishment in formal letters, and I rather think there are letters from the English divines, approving Calvin's conduct!— Before a man deals out the slang of the day about the great leaders of the Reformation, he should learn to throw himself back to the age of the Reformation, when the two great parties in the church were eagerly on the watch to fasten a charge of heresy on the other.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was dull here by the fireside when he was away, and our food lost all its relish.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

They travel by short stages; the people of our village were three days in going four leagues and in reaching Ossossané , which we call Rochelle, where all the ceremonies were to be held.
— from Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States by Cyrus Thomas

It is peculiarly applicable for lighthouses, as its rays would penetrate through a foggy atmosphere that would obscure the light of ordinary flames, and in such cases the extra cost should not operate as an obstacle to its use.
— from Great Facts A Popular History and Description of the Most Remarkable Inventions During the Present Century by Frederick C. (Frederick Collier) Bakewell

It was curiosity perhaps which tempted her to linger for the arrival of the old man, to hear the news from Lyme, as it reached that place generally a day or two sooner than Eversden.
— from Roger Willoughby: A Story of the Times of Benbow by William Henry Giles Kingston