At last one gave me a piece of bread and a tin mug of wine, as I thought, but it was spirits neat.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

By the aid of the law of gravitation, many astronomical predictions have been fulfilled.
— from Joseph Smith as Scientist: A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe

There are lots of good men and pure women in the world.
— from Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland

Come, Sir, come; we’ll up and into Will’s, and there, me stickin’ faster than a burr, we’ll home to Peter’s Court and with a merry lot of gentlemen make a pretty night of’t against to-morrow with its evening at Vauxhall.”
— from My Lady Peggy Goes to Town by Frances Aymar Mathews