Down into the old part of the garden, where the great avenue of wild chestnut trees lures the wanderer to tread its shades, went the man who was in search of the Story; for here the wind had once murmured something to him of "Waldemar Daa and his Daughters."
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He is a most learned and decorous personage and a truly well-bred Christian, who always backs the old gentleman in his opinions, winks discreetly at his little peccadilloes, rebukes the children when refractory, and is of great use in exhorting the tenants to read their Bibles, say their prayers, and, above all, to pay their rents punctually and without grumbling.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

There is one exception: if his mother, for instance, has some very wonderful family lace, or has kept her own wedding dress and has no daughter herself, and it would please her to have her son's wife wear her lace or dress, it is proper for the bride to consent.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Arrived in this great ocean of human life, where one living wave rushes past another as unrecognizant as the waves of the ordinary sea, his heart overflowing with domestic affections, he expends the few borrowed guineas in presents to his mother and sister, and sends them with flaming accounts of his prospect of honors for himself, and of wealth for them.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Howitt

How lustily your sons endure the hour Of wintry desolation; and how fair Your blooming daughters greet the op’ning dawn Of love-inspiring spring!
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

When he had measles he never let go my hand one whole day, and he said, ‘Stay wud me, mother—I feel tedious bad.’
— from The Four Roads by Sheila Kaye-Smith

But tell me, do you think what I have advanced trivial and unimportant?" asked Miriam, in a hopeful tone, for little she thought of herself, if only her obligation were discharged, and her brother still unharmed.
— from The Missing Bride by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The merchant’s son felt that the small hand within his own was dry and hot, and that the flesh had lost much of the roundness by which it had previously been distinguished.
— from Lady Eureka; or, The Mystery: A Prophecy of the Future. Volume 2 by Robert Folkestone Williams

[43] The atrocious cruelty of the French soldiery, in their subjugation of St. [Pg 180] Domingo, equalled (it could not have surpassed) that of the barbarous negroes whom they opposed; but was heard of with disgust and horror, such as no excesses of mere savages could have excited.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

With a sudden movement she took from the urn a small handful of white dust, and, holding it high over the lamp, sprinkled it slowly into its faint blue flame.
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux