"I've told you what you got to do, Marsh, and I mean every damn word I say,—understand that?
— from The Just and the Unjust by Vaughan Kester

My wife was entirely in love with me, and I made each day count for nothing more certainly than to deserve and return that sentiment of hers.
— from Homo-Culture; Or, The Improvement of Offspring Through Wiser Generation by M. L. (Martin Luther) Holbrook

I fancy that it is with others as with myself, and, in my early days at least, music wrought its chief enchantments and most perfectly allied itself with the great world of fantasy and imagination when I heard it in my own home, or at least quietly and privately, and when its influence was of a constant and regular kind.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various

In the metropolis, and in many extensive districts inquests are chiefly moved on the representations of common parish beadles, or by common parish constables, to whom the inquest is usually a source of emolument.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

Everybody is talking about Baratoff, and hence this verse: "The mountains looked on Baratoff And Baratoff looked on me; And in my evening dream I dreamed That Kut might still be free."
— from The Secrets of a Kuttite An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue by Edward O. (Edward Opotiki) Mousley

‘Here,’ said my acquaintance, ‘is my eldest daughter Sophia; let me introduce you.
— from A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

This consideration, with others, also leads me to conclude that muriatic acid is more easily decomposed by the electric current than water; since, even when diluted with eight or nine times its quantity of the latter fluid, it alone gives way, the water remaining unaffected.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

Such length of limb and strength of arm, once seen, does not escape my memory; and, if my eye deceive me not, ’twas he, with Courtenay, who led the assault at Nazareth; and furthermore, it runneth in my mind, that I have seen him elsewhere and in other guise.”
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

“Now, Zack,” said Valentine, after he had related the result of his visit to Baregrove Square, and had faithfully reported the contents of Mrs. Thorpe’s letter, “I shall only add that whatever has happened between your father and me, makes no difference in the respect I have always felt for your mother, and in my earnest desire to do her every service in my power.
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins