His behaviour to us has, in every respect, been as pleasing as when we were in Derbyshire.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To the ancient magnificence of Hierapolis its extant ruins bear ample testimony.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Major Gordon has not only brought himself into evil repute, but also the service of which he is so questionable a specimen.
— from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume II) by Augustus F. Lindley

She had been keenly alive to the wrongs that her mother endured, and had in every respect been a loving child.
— from Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

The smoke from a running train and the dust from a trailing herd, when viewed from a distance, pitches upward from a horizon line, and the moving direction of train or herd is easily read by an observant plainsman.
— from Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

Esther had that feeling rather often, for a girl of her age and sound health in every respect, bodily and mental.
— from A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

His frantic gesticulations had undoubtedly impressed them with the belief that he was bestraught with madness; a condition held in especial reverence by aboriginals,—as they continued to regard the movements of the Indian in pursuit with negligent indifference; indeed, from his frequent hesitations, when within the cast of a spear, he seemed to be subject to the restraining influence of the same fear.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

The abolition of the slave-trade ought to be held in everlasting remembrance by all the friends of justice and humanity.
— from Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 2 (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Anne, Lady

"I don't think he's at home in England," rejoined Barry, as meaningly and very stubbornly: "He won't like your not going to South Africa.
— from The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker

Dalrymple had slumped down in his chair, the content and triumph of his inflamed eyes replaced by a sullen fear.
— from The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp

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