10 John Irving Moss 7 Mar. 1805 11 George Doherty, W. 18 Sept. 1806 12 John H. Drought 8 Sept. 1808 13 Charles Robert Bowers, W. 18 Oct. 1810 14 Allan T. Maclean 11 July, 1811 John Geale, K. 25 July, 1811 15 Robert Nisbett 26 Dec. 1811 16 Wm.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

"After all, I am a kinswoman of yours, Mr. Brand, and little Julian is my cousin too; so I have some sort of a right to speak.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Tortured with such anxious thoughts, and brooding over them in secret, 128 a certain indication of some malignant intention, he judged it most prudent for the present to suspend his rancor, tilt the first burst of glory and the affections of the army should remit: for Agricola still possessed the command in Britain.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

There was that jumble in my thoughts and recollections, that I had lost the clear arrangement of time and distance.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Miss Matty, you must go; you know our friend Mrs Jamieson is much more phlegmatic than most people, and does not enter into the little delicacies of feeling which you possess in so remarkable a degree.”
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Your account of Sir James is most satisfactory, and I mean to give Miss Frederica a hint of my intentions very soon.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

simply he has annoyed me by not joining in my praises of you.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Stychus, bring out my funereal vestments while we wait, the ones I’ll be carried out in, some perfume, too, and a draught of the wine in that jar, I mean the kind I intend to have my bones washed in.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

But one thing is quite certain: if that belief in the speedy second coming of the Messiah which was shared by all parties in the primitive Church, whether Nazarene or Pauline; which Jesus is made to prophesy, over and over again, in the Synoptic gospels; and which dominated the life of Christians during the first century after the crucifixion;—if he believed and taught that, then assuredly he was under an illusion, and he is responsible for that which the mere effluxion of time has demonstrated to be a prodigious error.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

"Here's where we get it all-l-l-l-l back again," laughed Joe in much joy.
— from Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer by George Randolph Chester

“Juarez is my prisoner.”
— from The Golden Rock by Ernest Glanville

I watched Elinor, as she bent over the bed, with tears in my eyes, but joy in my heart.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

If any monopoly deserves unhesitating judgment, it must be that which absorbs the rights of others and engrosses political power.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

I dreamt, last night, Thou didst transfuse Oil from Thy jar into my cruse; And pouring still Thy wealthy store, The vessel full did then run o'er; Methought I did Thy bounty chide To see the waste; but 'twas replied By Thee, dear God, God gives man seed Ofttimes for waste, as for his need.
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

The familiar type of horse-power mill in which the cane is crushed was in full operation, a roaring fire was blazing in the crudely constructed furnace beneath the long pan that contained the furiously foaming, boiling juice and that “Uncle Jim” informed me was “nigh ’bout done” and ready to drain off into the huge black pot that stood by the side of the furnace.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Secondly, the people wanted it, the more because it would gratify their English instinct of independent judgment in matters of religion.
— from The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature by Cleland Boyd McAfee

"There was nothing for me to do, Jack; I must save poor Gott's life and mind.
— from Jack Ballington, Forester by John Trotwood Moore