Some of the tribes, however, remained, if not friendly, at least less hostile.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

The masonry, though large, is nicely fitted; a large light is admitted through the now fully pronounced Gothic windows towards the west.
— from Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Walter Pater

Near the stone I next fastened a longer length of string, and then I ensconced myself on the opposite side of the road.
— from Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

He was the curisist creetur' I ever seed in my life, and the best; and I'd do more fur 'im nor fur any livin' live man.
— from Sevenoaks: A Story of Today by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

And so we write it finally as our solemn conviction that there is need for a law like our own English law, and we add—and those who know India know how true this sentence is— such legislation, however carefully framed, will be a delusion, a blind, a dead letter, unless men of no ordinary insight and courage and character are appointed to see that it is carried out .
— from Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael

‘The priest may turn in now for a long, long nap.
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

Some of his thoughts should be quoted: "As I think the eye to be as docile as the ear; so neither see I any reason but the hand might be made as tractable an organ as the tongue; and as soon brought to form, if not fair, at least legible characters, as the tongue to imitate and echo back articulate sounds."
— from Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery