I could easily perceive a cloud of melancholy overspread the faces of Serafina and her mother, when I declared these my resolutions; but, as they made no objection to what I proposed, I did not at that time enter into an explanation of the true motives that influenced my conduct.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

She is certainly exceedingly pretty and clever."
— from Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn by Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert

Whoever believes with me that society is the natural organic form of humanity, in which alone it can exist, prosper, and continue to develop itself to higher destinies; whoever looks upon civilization as a good, having value and deserving to be defended, must mercilessly crush under his thumb the anti-social vermin.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

As a matter of course, the marked individuality of his intense convictions, earnestness, persistence, and confident reliance upon the justice of his conclusions, naturally growing out of the consciousness of having brought to his honest search after truth all the lights of his learning and experience, may, at times, have brought him into unpleasant relations with some of his colleagues; but no one, friend or foe, has questioned his ability and patriotism, or doubted his fidelity to principle.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete The Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life, and Criticism by John Greenleaf Whittier

I can even put a cringle into a sail.”
— from Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield

Unlike the other companies, it had no navigable stream along which it could establish posts and conduct its operations.
— from The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive by Hiram Martin Chittenden

"When he visits me, I can even play a classic for him," she thought.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann