‘If I hate him, that’s enough, ain’t it?’ ‘Quite enough for him, my dear, and a great deal too much I dare say, if he knew it,’ replied Squeers in a pacific tone.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

It was a beautiful and exhilarating sight to see the red-nosed man writhing in Mr. Weller’s grasp, and his whole frame quivering with anguish as kick followed kick in rapid succession; it was a still more exciting spectacle to behold Mr. Weller, after a powerful struggle, immersing Mr. Stiggins’s head in a horse-trough full of water, and holding it there, until he was half suffocated.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Here the panorama was of a different kind; it represented scenes in India—the pursuit of deer and various kinds of smaller game, the hunting of the lion and the tiger by the the natives, perched on great elephants with magnificent trappings.
— from Old Time Wall Papers An Account of the Pictorial Papers on Our Forefathers' Walls with a Study of the Historical Development of Wall Paper Making and Decoration by Kate Sanborn

Or I can comprehend nature killing it relentlessly, since it didn't lead to propagation.
— from Linda Condon by Joseph Hergesheimer

This has disappeared, like many another quaint roadside relic, and there comes now nothing but evidence of suburban activity until Kingston is reached, save indeed the ruined Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, now a school-house, beside the footpath.
— from The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

These shops, extensive in themselves, present no radical differences from the usual division shops which a great railroad maintains at every division operating point in order to keep its rolling stock in the best of order.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

hat Edward held out to him, and kissed it respectfully, saying, "I would not betray you, my lord, for the world, were you here alone and I at the head of hundreds; but ere we part, I must ask you one boon."
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Far from destroying the phonetic character of this composite glyph, however, this variant k in reality strengthens it, since in Maya the word for fish is cay ( c hard) and consequently the variant reads caytun , a close phonetic approximation of katun .
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

When you know I really said it first!"
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

Do me one kindness in return,” said I, very gravely, for I felt my hour was come.
— from Percival Keene by Frederick Marryat

He continues: Public opinion has nowhere as yet, even in the lands where considerable success has attended the war on drunkenness, ripened sufficiently a desire to give, even incompletely, a summary of the information about that battle, and make my fellow-countrymen acquainted with a matter still little known in Russia, so I am prompted to write what follows.
— from New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various