A female at fourteen is at years of legal discretion, and may choose a guardian; at seventeen may be an executrix; and at twenty-one may dispose of herself and her lands.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

They conflict with the conditions then existing in Gujarāt, and such motley arrays are a favourite bardic theme (Forbes, Rāsmāla , 31, note; ASR , ii. 379).]
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

It is but little thou sufferest in comparison of them that have suffered so much, were so strongly tempted, so grievously afflicted, so many ways tried and exercised.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The remote position and venerable antiquity of Tingi, or Tangier, have been decorated by the Greek and Arabian fables; but the figurative expressions of the latter, that the walls were constructed of brass, and that the roofs were covered with gold and silver, may be interpreted as the emblems of strength and opulence.
— 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

A most contrary circumstance it is, for I want certain information out of that girl, and she must be brought to reason somehow."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Láing istudiyanti ang naggusar sa librung ákung giabángan, Another student made use of the book I rented.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

With the best intentions, the British government may be justly accused of gross ignorance of the true principles of colonisation, and the local governments are still more open to the accusation of squandering the resources of the colony—its lands—in building up the fortunes of a would-be aristocracy, who being non-resident proprietors of wild lands, necessarily obstructed the progress of improvement, while the people were tantalised with the empty semblance of a free government.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Just now I shall go to the gaol, and shall make him happy by giving him this good news.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

All that we could see in this young Captain was that he was an excellent dancer; he had plenty of gaiety and still more assurance, a general air of good nature and spent his time with prostitutes; for the rest, scarcely a nobleman, quite poor and not seen at Court.
— from On Love by Stendhal

"It seemed so, after your performance, 'Gentle Annie'!" snapped Miss Spenceley.
— from The Dude Wrangler by Caroline Lockhart

"Thank you, Basil, I think I will let you go alone," said my wife.
— from A Pair of Patient Lovers by William Dean Howells

"Is there a single soul in this audience," said the Brahmo leader, the late Keshub Chunder Sen, [96] to the educated Indians of Calcutta, mostly Hindus, "who would Page 193 scruple to ascribe extraordinary greatness and supernatural moral heroism to Jesus Christ and Him crucified?"
— from New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by John Morrison

Symple is my goste, and scars my letterure
— from Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. (Grace Eleanor) Hadow

May the Tempter not find me without Thy Grace and seize me deceitfully and lead me, deceived, from Thy deifying words.
— from Orthodox Daily Prayers by Anonymous

But enough of that for the present; let us go and see Master Pedro’s show, for I am sure there must be something novel in it.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And let me say, once for all, that to that great and serene man I gladly pay, the tribute of my admiration and my tears.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Writing from Camp Guheish, about seventeen miles south of Abu Hamed, on February 2, the General says: "We arrived here last night about eight o'clock, after a long journey across the desert from Halfa.
— from General Gatacre The Story of the Life and Services of Sir William Forbes Gatacre, K.C.B., D.S.O., 1843-1906 by Gatacre, Beatrix Wickens Davey, Lady

It was not long before Brownie had gnawed away so many chips that the tree began to nod its head further and further toward the ground.
— from The Tale of Brownie Beaver by Arthur Scott Bailey

The Government gold and silver mines are worked by convicts, who receive no pay for their labour.
— from From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt