A district which is cultivated by slaves is in general more scantily peopled than a district cultivated by free labor: moreover, America is still a new country, and a State is therefore not half peopled at the time when it abolishes slavery.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

As we were coming from the theatre she told me all about the piece with charming grace and wonderful memory; she seemed to wish to give me some pleasure in return for the tedium to which she had condemned me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

En España, y principalmente 20 en tiempo de guerras, que son siempre aquí desmoralizadoras, suelen verse esas condescendencias infames con los grandes, mientras se persigue sin piedad a los pequeñuelos.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

By the way, she could not help wondering how mamma could take in your immense pego; why, she said, it was as thick as her wrist and much longer than her hand, and yet it seemed to slip into mamma with ease and pleasure, ‘while yours, dear Harry, which is not thicker than my two forefingers, and hardly much longer, has given me such pain
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

“Gracious me!” said Porthos, “there’s Phoebus ruined.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“By telling me that you are vexed no longer, and by continuing to give my sister proofs of your love.” “I swear to you that so far from being angry with you I am very fond of you; but would you like us to be fond in your presence?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

return thanks, give thanks; say grace, bless, praise, laud, glorify, magnify, sing praises; give benediction, lead the choir, intone; deacon, deacon off propitiate[U.S.], offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself; vow, offer vows, give alms.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

SYN: Preservation, keeping, protection, guardianship, maintenance, stabilisation, perpetuation.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

And with tears in his eyes shall he ask you for a dance; and I myself will sing a song to his dance: A dance-song and satire on the spirit of gravity my supremest, powerfulest devil, who is said to be “lord of the world.”—
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For now, peril and darkness, storm, hard riding, the uproar and rage of man-killing, all past and gone, my special private wretchedness came back to me bigger than ever, like a neglected wound stiffened and swollen as it has grown cold.
— from The Cavalier by George Washington Cable

The wrinkles on a cow's neck, called gyu mo shun (Plate XXVI b) .
— from On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan by Henry P. Bowie

Sir Charles, being dry after his song, drank to Hospitality,—"A duty," he said, smiling, "that you gentlemen make so paramount that you must wonder at the omission of 'Thou shalt be hospitable' from the Decalogue."
— from Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Mary Johnston

Good old Clucket, dear old Cluckety, give me some, please!"
— from Toto's Merry Winter by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

They will say, ‘Very good, Mr. Southern Pacific, if you can afford to carry him at a cent and a quarter a mile, you carry the man in Stockton, who wants to go up to Sacramento or to Marysville, at the same identical rate per mile.
— from Our Railroads To-Morrow by Edward Hungerford

Pray remember me to the Admiral, and be assured it will give me sincere pleasure if your wish on his behalf can be gratified.
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

“Good morning,” said Penny pleasantly.
— from Behind the Green Door by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt