Already, however, the legal tongues are wagging, and one young law student is loudly asserting that the rights of the owner are already completely sacrificed, his property being held in contravention of the statutes of mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of delegated possession, is held in a dead hand .
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel; Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down; And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say: Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest; Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving; Say I love Brutus and I honour him; Say I fear’d Caesar, honour’d him, and lov’d him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Le Scorbut Infantile, La Semaine Médicale , 1899, No. 8.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

After great trouble, occasioned by the intractable ferocity of his captive during the home voyage, he at length succeeded in lodging it safely at his own residence in Paris, where, not to attract toward himself the unpleasant curiosity of his neighbors, he kept it carefully secluded, until such time as it should recover from a wound in the foot, received from a splinter on board ship.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

What higher in her societie thou findst Attractive, human, rational, love still; In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true Love consists not; love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges, hath his seat In Reason, and is judicious, is the scale By which to heav’nly Love thou maist ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure, for which cause Among the Beasts no Mate for thee was found.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

He tells me that my Lord Sandwich is lost there at Court, though the King is particularly his friend.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Your lengthened stay in London, and the dissipation in which I find you are involved, fill me with uneasiness.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

I warn you that the latter style is less old-fashioned than the others."
— from Gerfaut — Volume 4 by Charles de Bernard

The gentlemen ventured to sit near the ladies ; the girls laughed and spoke in whispers to their neighbours; the ladies spoke in loud voices across the table; the gentlemen drank, disputed, and laughed boisterously.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

The Abolition of Fees and Perquisites, and liberal Salaries in lieu thereof.—7th.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

Practice makes perfect, as the saying is; and, much as I’ve learnt since I ‘listed, we always find something new.
— from The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy

He jerked on his boots and rose, and not until he stood up, did he see John Gaspar asleep in the big chair, his head inclining to one side, the book half-fallen from his hand, and the lamp sputtering its last beside him.
— from The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand