Lucy is monstrous pretty, and so good humoured and agreeable!
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

‘My house is desolate yet, Miss Grey,’ he smilingly observed, ‘and I am acquainted now with all the ladies in my parish, and several in this town too; and many others I know by sight and by report; but not one of them will suit me for a companion; in fact, there is only one person in the world that will: and that is yourself; and I want to know your decision?’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Then I shall have done what lay in my power, and shown you both, as I trust, that you have had a friend for your guest."
— from King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

The wounds of Captain Lawrence confined him to his bed until the moment of his death; he lingered in much pain and suffering until the 5th of June, when, in the thirty-second year of his age, he expired.
— from Memoirs of the Generals, Commodores and other Commanders, who distinguished themselves in the American army and navy during the wars of the Revolution and 1812, and who were presented with medals by Congress for their gallant services by Thomas Wyatt

His life is most precious, and she entreats that he will neither put himself where his noble spirit would urge him to be—foremost in danger—nor fatigue himself so as to injure his health."
— from The Story of Westminster Abbey by Violet Brooke-Hunt

"Well, then, have a look in my pockets and see if you can find it."
— from The Lonely Unicorn: A Novel by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

No censure can dim it, Because it's the limit In massive proportions And splendid distortions.
— from Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 by Various

So I showed him the permit covered with signatures that was the one scrap of writing left in my possession after several searchings.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

Barere, only six years before, had been far more powerful, far more widely renowned, than any of them; and now, while they were thought worthy to represent the majesty of France at foreign courts, while they received crowds of suitors in gilded antechambers, he was to pass his life in measuring paragraphs, and scolding correctors of the press.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

And servant maidens singing in the field, You'd love me; but I own no roaming herds, My only wealth is songs of love for you, And now that you are lost I may pursue A sad life deep below the depth of words.
— from The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge with Introductions by Lord Dunsany by Francis Ledwidge

I answer that, The Divine Law instructs man perfectly about such things as are necessary for right living.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint