I think he loves me better every day, and is kinder and more affectionate than he was the day before.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The greater part of the plants cultivated by the natives of Kurg and Mysore appear to have come from the Baba Budan importation.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The people loved the true knight as much as they hated the feudal lord; and long after the decay of the order, even the affectation of its higher qualities both won regard from the lower classes, and excited the admiration of all those above them, who retained any sparks of the spirit which once animated it.
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

'No; I do not want to know anything more about the horrid things.'
— from Armorel of Lyonesse: A Romance of To-day by Walter Besant

Mr. Lowther writes, that my brother and he are lodged in the hotel of a man of quality, a dear friend of the late Mr. Danby, and one of the three whom he has remembered in his will; and that Sir Charles is extremely busy in relation to the executorship; and, having not a moment to spare, desired Mr. Lowther to engage his friend, to whom he wrote, to let us know as much; and that he was hastening every thing for his journey onwards.
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

It was on a dark night, while he was settling a small score against one Kelly, a mere acquaintance, that he first fell foul of Constable Keating, whose beat took him through the regions which James most frequented.
— from Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Lord Chandos did not even like to think of parting from her; and then, when she was most kind and most attentive to him, she mentioned Rome.
— from A Mad Love by Charlotte M. Brame

Both the Korwas of the Chota Nāgpur plateau and the Korkus of the Satpūra hills were known as Muāsi, a term having the meaning of robber or raider.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

The canons of St. Swithun “foolishly thought they saw the disembodied spirit of King Alfred moving about their habitation,” and I am afraid we must conclude that some of the monks of Hyde, to obtain the valuable body of the King, dressed themselves up as the ghost and frightened the poor canons.
— from Royal Winchester: Wanderings in and about the Ancient Capital of England by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

“You whale daylights out of a lot of men who probably don't know any more about this here shooting of our dams than a hog does about a ruffled shirt.
— from The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

They had lost, in killed and missing, about three hundred and fifty.
— from The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity by William Wells Brown