" "Yes, in property going out of families," said Mrs. Waule, in continuation,—"and where there's steady young men to carry on.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But neither St. Girard, nor Broad street, neither wonders of the Mint nor the glories of the Hall where the ghosts of our fathers sit always signing the Declaration; impressed the visitors so much as the splendors of the Chestnut street windows, and the bargains on Eighth street.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

I cannot determine whether I shall give Richis half a guinea or only five shillings when I go away.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Notwithstanding this animated reply, she underwent the most deplorable anguish, when she reflected upon the insolence of this woman, from whose barbarity she had no resource; and, seeing no other possibility of redress than that of appealing to the good offices of Fathom, she conquered her reluctance so far, as to complain to him of Madam la Mer's incivility.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

As the conversation was going on, our father said that a friend of Pisias came galloping up from the town to report an act of marvellous audacity.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

A slave, to whom he had chanced to grant his freedom, had attempted his life by stealthy treachery, and he exacted a bitter penalty; as though it were just that the guilt of one freedman should be visited upon all.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

“Ah, the robes and crowns are gone out of fashion,” said Lord Warburton, “like your tomahawks and revolvers.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

And this report, whether well or ill founded, was terrible to all the Hellenes, and above all to the Athenians, and they dispatched embassies in all directions, but no one was willing to come to their relief, with the exception of the Lacedaemonians; and they, either because they were detained by the Messenian war, which was then going on, or for some other reason of which we are not told, came a day too late for the battle of Marathon.
— from Laws by Plato

The saints be praised that the grandeur of our fortunes still has so worthy a representative, and that I set my eyes once more upon a LeCour de Lincy.
— from The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall

"If it closes with the Government of our Fathers secure, and Constitutional Liberty in all its purity guaranteed to the White man, the result will be better than that having a place in the fears of many good men at present, and much better than the past history of such revolutions can justify us in expecting.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

We wish to cherish rather than oppress the sons of illustrious men, who are the germ of our future Senate.'
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

"Oh, we're not going to give over our football, sir," asserted Paul with prompt candor.
— from Paul and the Printing Press by Sara Ware Bassett

“It's a mercy wrappers don't go out of fashion,” she often said.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Still, you may ask me, if its results are to be the ground of our final spiritual estimate of a religious phenomenon, why threaten us at all with so much existential study of its conditions?
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

I have deemed it my duty to thus bring to the knowledge of my countrymen, as well as to the attention of their representatives charged with the responsibility of legislative relief, the gravity of our financial situation.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

yes, the refugees are safe, else desertion would grow out of fashion soon.
— from The Bride of Fort Edward: Founded on an Incident of the Revolution by Delia Salter Bacon