Nelson, having entertained them with the best his table could afford, told them they were at liberty to depart with their boat, and all that it contained: he only required them to promise that they would consider themselves as prisoners if the commander-in-chief should refuse to acquiesce in their being thus liberated: a circumstance which was not likely to happen.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

I have not often seen a place that commends itself so favourably and pleasantly to a stranger at the first glance as this does: with its clean houses of red and white, its well-paved roads, and foot-ways of bright tile.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

With an outfit of two, three, or four of such, I have made journeys of as much as eighteen hundred miles in a single season, usually from post to post, averaging in distance about two hundred miles a week, with as much regularity as is done today by the steam-car its five hundred miles a day; but those days are gone, and, though I recognize the great national advantages of the more rapid locomotion, I cannot help occasionally regretting the change.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

She was offel mad and she was mad cause I chased her old rooster round the yard till he fell down ded.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But since the postulate upon which it rests is also found in certain historians of religion who do not admit the animism properly so-called, such as Brinton, [122] Lang, [123] Réville, [124] and even Robertson Smith himself, [125] it is necessary to make an examination of it.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I shall make my wife a brilliant literary lady; I shall bring her forward and explain her to the public; as my wife she must be full of the most striking virtues; and if they are right in calling Andrey Alexandrovitch our Russian Alfred de Musset, they will be still more right in calling her our Russian Yevgenia Tour."
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And so far as his reception among the gods is concerned, history only records that this was believed, and does not state it as a fact; for no miraculous signs testified to the truth of this.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The suffix -ad- is used to form words indicating that the action expressed in the root is continuous, habitual or repeated.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

‘Yes, my good Sir Richard,’ said the unfortunate prince in a tone melancholy, yet resolved, ‘Charles Edward is with his faithful friends once more—not, perhaps, with his former gay hopes which undervalued danger, but with the same determined contempt of the worst which can befall him, in claiming his own rights and those of his country.’
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

"Ancient legend records similar instances of fatality in certain houses," observed Riccabocca.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

The well-known Sea Pink, with its compact head of rose-coloured flowers, in bloom throughout the spring and summer, and linear one-veined leaves, may be seen on most of our coasts, as well as on high ground in inland districts.
— from The Sea Shore by William S. Furneaux

Even in places where the organ-man is cursed, he often reaps a rich harvest of pennies, paid him to go away.
— from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook

It comforted him, on reflection, to think that matters might have been worse.
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins

After Col. Ingersoll's speech the veterans crowded around the stand to meet and grasp the hand of their comrade, and the boys of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, his old regiment, were especially profuse in their congratulations and thanks for the splendid address he had delivered.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political by Robert Green Ingersoll

Again, just in the same way as volition can produce or suspend muscular movement, mental influence can hasten or retard glandular secretion.
— from Jaundice: Its Pathology and Treatment With the Application of Physiological Chemistry to the Detection and Treatment of Diseases of the Liver and Pancreas by George Harley

And then, having succeeded in convincing himself of Republican failure, he exultingly exclaimed: "But why enumerate? What measure of this Administration has failed to be fatal!
— from The Great Conspiracy, Volume 6 by John Alexander Logan

Instantly the young fellow looked up in startled surprise, then Jim grinned, for Bob was industriously chewing his own rope and had managed to get half way through it.
— from Airplane Boys in the Black Woods by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine