A mere lackey for Dr. John his valet, his foot-boy!
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

—Madame Durand ( Napoleon and Marie Louise ) says that, forced to abandon his wife (the beautiful and energetic Miss Paterson) and child, Jerome "had vowed he would never have any relations with a wife who had been thus forced upon him."
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

She often told her aunt, joyously, how very happy they were.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The person to whom I above all others thought I should apply to negociate this business, was the Lord Chancellor, because I knew that he highly valued Johnson, and that Johnson highly valued his Lordship; so that it was no degradation of my illustrious friend to solicit for him the favour of such a man.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

One Sir Edmund Bury Godfry, a woodmonger and justice of Peace in Westminster, having two days since arrested Sir Alexander Frazier for about L30 in firing, the bailiffs were apprehended, committed to the porter’s lodge, and there, by the King’s command, the last night severely whipped; from which the justice himself very hardly escaped, to such an unusual degree was the King moved therein.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And six dollars and sixty-five cents was hardly too much for a man to keep a family on, considering the fact that the price of dressed meat had increased nearly fifty per cent in the last five years, while the price of “beef on the hoof” had decreased as much, it would have seemed that the packers ought to be able to pay it; but the packers were unwilling to pay it—they rejected the union demand, and to show what their purpose was, a week or two after the agreement expired they put down the wages of about a thousand men to sixteen and a half cents, and it was said that old man Jones had vowed he would put them to fifteen before he got through.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Joseph, his valet, handed him his sabretache and saber, and they all went out into the vestibule.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Having a sort of sympathy for the old jail he views his transient residences therein rather necessary than otherwise.
— from Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

No; these two have just had, very humanly and gladly, the "time of their lives"!
— from Browning's Heroines by Ethel Colburn Mayne

Straithwaite was indeed between the unenviable alternatives of the familiar proverb, but, to do him justice, his voice had lost scarcely a ripple of its usual sang-froid.
— from Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah

Then, as Perceval looked about him, he saw the dark hole of a cave in a bank beside the hollow, and suddenly therefrom issued a burst of horrible fire and smoke, and with a cry as of a fiend a black knight suddenly appeared before him on a great horse, whose eyes flashed as with fire and whose nostrils jetted hot vapours. 'Ha!
— from King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert

They told me you lived on this street," said Justine, her voice hoarse with emotion.
— from The Sherrods by George Barr McCutcheon

They said it was at the source of Nature, four elements, four seasons, &c., to which later speculators added the four rivers of Paradise, four evangelists, and association of the number four with God, whose name was a mystical Tetra grammaton, Jod, He, Vau, He. return Footnote 5: Where it is explained that Adam meaning Man; Seth, placed; and Enosh, Misery: the mystic inference is that Man was placed in Misery.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir