We have got an answer out of you at last; and now go on spouting the whole Iliad if you like.”
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

—The Lowther Arcade not getting on so well as thought when projected.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 by Various

This leaves a net gain of six and two thirds per cent with accidental factors unaccounted for.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

This patience and resignation then I exhort you to cherish, my brethren, when the world scorns you for your religion; and withal cheerfulness and meekness, that you may bear your cross lightly, and not gloomily, or sadly, or complainingly.
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

Thus, as the carriage passed the lodge, a noisy group of small-sized darkies were making a public demonstration.
— from Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman

The community to all intents and purposes governs itself according to popular custom and popular opinion, the seat of government being Newton's big, earthen-floored bar, or the brushwood shelters near the mines in which the men sit at midday to eat their lunches and noodle—, go over, snip, and examine—the opal they have taken out of the mines during the morning.
— from The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard