It appears that at its session of the 18th of July last, the Mexican Geographical and Statistical Society elected Daniel Webste
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

In order to settle this point to the student's satisfaction no better proof could be suggested than that he paint in black and white a simple landscape motif, with no attempt to create a focus, with no suppression of the corners and no circuit of objects—a landscape in which ground and sky shall equally divide the interest.
— from Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore

There, you would see, with deep and wordless gratitude for your trust and your love, grave and solemn solicitude, earnest desire to divest my decision of all mean thought of self, and judge only whether indeed, as king or as subject, I can best guard the weal of England.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I, who might always be said—to—to—to harness myself to a watering-cart full of money, and go about saturating Society every day of my life.’
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

He begs permission to return the army in general his warmest thanks for their zeal, perseverance, gallantry, and spirit, so eminently distinguished, and never before exceeded, by every rank, from the general to the soldier, throughout this service; and this justice he cannot fail to do them in the [Pg A30] strongest language to his majesty.—The works of the trenches to be levelled, and every preparation made by all departments for embarkation on another expedition.
— from An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794 Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. by Cooper Willyams