The noise did not disturb the performers, and the actor that had so distinguished himself appeared to put even greater vigor into his movements.
— from Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Oliver Optic

We may not have the happiness to witness a plentiful harvest from the seed that we have sown with so much toil and labor; but we should nevertheless bear in mind that those bishops and priests who have the happiness of laying the foundations of future Catholic life in our country, resemble our Lord Jesus Christ, Who suffered His Apostles to perform even greater miracles than He Himself had wrought.
— from Public School Education by Michael Müller

He is already distinguished among the students here; and the professors expect great things of him.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

“ Coleccion general de las probidencias ( sic ) hasta aqui tomadas por el Gobierno sobre el estrañamiento y ocupacion de las temporalidades de los Regulares de la Compañia [de Jesus], que existian en los dominios de S. M. [el Rey Carlos III.] de España, Indias é Islas Filipinas á consequencia del real decreto de 27 de Febrero y Pragmatica Sancion de 2 de Abril de 1767;” apparently a copy of the official report printed at the time.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

The masters who have all these people employed give them the thread to make them; this they do according to a pattern, and give them out to be grounded; after this they give them to a third hand, who 'hearts' all the flowers with the open work.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

Her fingers hurt, and the pain even gave pleasure; her cheeks were burning; her breath came fast.
— from Villa Rubein, and Other Stories by John Galsworthy

I was happy to think that I should never be called upon to associate with them; by-and-by, when I outgrew my mother's teaching, I was to have a tutor, perhaps even go to college in time, and when I became a man I was to be a curate and live with my mother in a clematis-covered cottage in some pleasant village.
— from The Talking Horse, and Other Tales by F. Anstey