He is a most kind and indulgent master, and, provided his servants humor his peculiarities, flatter his vanity a little now and then, and do not peculate grossly on him before his face they may manage him to perfection.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me, I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any can deliver out of my hand.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

I have always found you good, kind, and indulgent masters, and still find you so.” XXX.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Ralph waited until there was a perfect silence, and then turning to Mrs Nickleby, but directing an eager glance at Kate, as if more anxious to watch his effect upon her, said: ‘Now, ma’am, listen to me.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Katia answered in monosyllables, and from time to time went into hiding, retired into herself; and on each occasion of this sort she made her reappearance but reluctantly, and with a face composed to a stubborn, almost a stupid, air.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Most zealously I seek for erudition: Much do I know—but to know all is my ambition.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal; There is none that can deliver out of my hand.
— from Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Volume 1 (of 2) A picture of Judaism, in the century which preceded the advent of our Savior. by Friedrich Strauss

This worthy man was, as Chaucer tells us, "a very perfect, gentle knight," and "In many a noble army had he been: At [Pg 27] mortal battles had he been fifteen."
— from The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Duplicity and hypocrisy are here very common indeed, more so than dissimulation anywhere else; but barefaced knaves and impostors must always make indifferent courtiers.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Among English diminutive affixes are -kin , as in manikin , a little man; pipkin , a little pipe; -ling , as in gosling , a little goose; darling, that is, dearling , or little dear; and -et , as in pocket , from poke , a bag or pouch; tablet , a little table.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

The machine embodying the parti-coloured ribbons and tabulator devices are generally known as "invoicing" machines, and by simple arrangements, every phase—not only of correspondence, but also of office and statistical work—can be accomplished, with an enormous saving of time.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson

He was struck by it, and said: "My master, thou art truly wise, in always associating with the Frengis; for these Persians, although they believe in the Koran and in Mohammed, are, by heaven!
— from Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry

By continuing the advance of the Korean army into Manchuria and landing another force between it and the Port Arthur army the three corps could be concentrated and the vicious separation of the lines of operations turned to good account.
— from Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian Stafford Corbett

It was thought by all the children to be something very fine, and now Maggie sat with it upon her lap while she turned over the leaves, explaining such pictures as she knew, and inventing meanings and stories for those which were new to her.
— from Bessie and Her Friends by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews