“I have got a pair of pistols (here they are), which I took from a horse officer at the battle of Dettingen; they are double loaded, and if any highwayman in England robs you of the value of a pin while I have the honour of being in your company, d—n my heart.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I was by no means prepared for such an event, nor can I now account for her ladyship's conduct; Langford appeared so exactly the place for her in every respect, as well from the elegant and expensive style of living there, as from her particular attachment to Mr. Mainwaring, that I was very far from expecting so speedy a distinction, though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Also, amid many opinions held in equal repute, I chose always the most moderate, as much for the reason that these are always the most convenient for practice, and probably the best (for all excess is generally vicious), as that, in the event of my falling into error, I might be at less distance from the truth than if, having chosen one of the extremes, it should turn out to be the other which I ought to have adopted.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

“When you have cherished a wish and have charged me with its fulfillment, have I ever replied, ‘It is impossible’?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

A late, cold spring in Canada is generally succeeded by a burning hot summer; and the summer of '34 was the hottest I ever remember.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I know not whether or not her ardor would have been more satisfied with this visit, her pride at least would have been flattered by it, and I already rejoiced at the idea of my convincing her, in every respect, that I knew how to repair the wrongs I had done.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ἐτίμησα, to estimate in respect of worth; to hold in estimation, respect, honour, reverence, Mat. 15.4, 5, 8; 19.19.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

I think it would be desirable for her in every respect.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

And yet this book which affords such intense delight to its reader, often by its pathos, less often by its mirth—for, strangely enough, one finds that the gift of being humorous is extremely rare—will give as much pleasure to the half-educated child as it does to the man whom poor old Captain Cuttle, Dickens’s simple-hearted child-like creation, described as “chock full of science.”
— from George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

His ingenious experiments, reported in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (vol. xxxv.), have demonstrated that by supersaturation of air the invisible dust particles may become visible.
— from Bacteria Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health by Newman, George, Sir

On the southwest corner there is Kranzler's staid old café, a very respectable place, where the lower hall is even reserved for non-smokers.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

They are, first a mammal, which, however, is erroneously represented by a fish; second, a fish, third an iguana and lastly a bird.
— from Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann

Then to the warm bank below, Yellow with the morning-ray, And sees his shelter'd hives in even row, And hears their hum mix with the linnet's lay.
— from Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Anna Seward

“She is much better, monsieur; her health is entirely restored.
— from The Bashful Lover (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIX) by Paul de Kock

You will use it as your own, Henry, in every respect as your own?"
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

"You have hit it exactly," returned the imperturbable Chivers.
— from The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen

"He emulates him in every respect," sneered Gagabu; "and though he does not resemble him in any feature, grows more and more like him.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

That I should suit her in every respect but the matrimonial, I did not doubt.
— from Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell