Have a room prepared especially for her use, and let her occupy it alone.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

The mothers had a right prior even to yours, and I needed two assistants.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

Parnell in his celebrated work upon roads has the following paragraph upon this subject:— The great advantage of having a road perfectly exposed to the action of the sun and wind will be more accurately conceived by referring to writers of science on evaporation.
— from The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois

Hammond had a rule permitting each work hand to go to Augusta on some Sunday after harvest; but for some reason he noted in pencil below it: "This is objectionable and must be altered."
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

And then one of the good souls intimated that it was sad to have a relation publicly executed: he must pass as a criminal.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various

When you get young people with fresh, clear voices talking together with animation, the speech falls into a kind of recitative and has a rather pleasing effect.
— from The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, Illustrated by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

He had a real pleasant evening, and Miss Harriet invited him to stay all night, because it rained so hard, and sent her black Toby over to the school to ask permission for him, and told him she would make it all right in the morning.
— from The Pansy Magazine, February 1886 by Various

“Your hands are real pretty, Ellen.”
— from An Alabaster Box by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

It's more in the nature of a hypnotic drug, but it has a rather peculiar effect.
— from The Stuff by Henry Slesar