“You see,” she continued, in a faint and lady-like voice, like the last dying breath of an Arabian jessamine, or something equally ethereal, “you see, Cousin Ophelia, I don’t often speak of myself.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I hope this time to send you a weekly dose of sunshine from the 81 south, instead of the jet of snell Edinburgh east wind that used to was.—Ever your faithful friend, R. L. S. To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson Hôtel du Pavillon, Menton, November 13, 1873.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson

The exhibitors themselves are to choose the jury of selection, each exhibitor naming any one he may think fit.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

[17] This remarkable fact in Becket's history rests on the authority of his friend, John of Salisbury: " Erat enim in suspectu adolescentia regis et juvenum et pravorum hominum, quorum conciliis agi videbatur ...
— from Life of Thomas à Becket by Henry Hart Milman

Ce que vous auriez donc, à ce qu’il me semble, de meilleur à faire, ce serait de venir ici lundi ou mardi, de jouer votre concert dans la semaine (peut–être jeudi ou samedi); et ensuite de repartir pour Ems, où je vous annoncerai de mon mieux.
— from Ole Bull: A Memoir by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull