I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I was, and with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

So far our road, Miss Summerson, is for'ard—straight ahead—and keeping everything quiet!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The others were allowed to marry with their kinsmen in the fourth degree, and the dispensation was justified by the small number and close alliances of the noble families of Rome, (Mémoires sur Pétrarque, tom. i. p. 110, tom. ii.
— 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

There has not for the whole of that time been a single day of my life when it would have been safe for me to go South of Mason’s and Dixon’s line in my own country, and for one reason: my solemn, earnest, persistent testimony against that which I consider to be the most atrocious thing under the sun—the system of American slavery in a great free republic.
— from How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking by Edwin Gordon Lawrence

My life, so full of romance, may sound like a dream to the matter-of-fact reader, nevertheless everything I have written is strictly true; much has been omitted, but nothing has been exaggerated.
— from Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley

So He will till it, He will plough it, He will pick out the weeds, and all the disciplines of life will come to us, and the ploughshare will be driven deep into the heart, that 'the peaceable fruit of righteousness' may spring up.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

"You may not be in such a hurry to leave me on a future occasion," retorted Mrs. Snow.
— from The Black Patch by Fergus Hume

American holly is found on rich, moist soils of bottomlands in East Texas and westward to Wilson County.
— from Forest Trees of Texas: How to Know Them by C. B. (Cyril Bertram) Webster

Full of mirth, and full of him, While floating odors round me swim, While mantling bowls are full supplied, And you sit blushing by my side, I will be mad and raving too— Mad, my girl, with love for you!
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore