Its members are now drummers and pipers as well as lime-burners.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Having complied with her request in this particular, he took his leave, after he had, by repeated entreaties, prevailed upon her to accept a jewel, in token of his veneration for the kind benefactress of the deceased Monimia; nor could his generous heart be satisfied, until he had forced a considerable present on the humane physician who had attended her in her last moments, and now discovered a particular sympathy and concern for her desponding lover.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

His majesty did not much believe her; but he was a sensible man, and never disputed a point with a woman; so when the babe was born, and proved a boy, he christened him with his name; and elevated him to the peerage in his cradle by the title of Duke of Fitz-Aquitaine and Marquis of Gascony.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Well, one evening papa wanted to put 'em on, because he had a right to, Mr. Parcher, an' Willie didn't have any right to at all, but mamma couldn't find 'em; an' she rummidged an' rummidged 'most all next day an' pretty near every day since then an' never did find 'em, until don't you believe I saw Willie inside of 'em only last night!
— from Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William by Booth Tarkington

The pity is that the women meant for the world too often fly to the cloister, and the women who would have made admirable nuns— "Devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure," persist in taking upon themselves those duties of wifehood and maternity for which they were never fitted at all.
— from A Vanished Hand by Sarah Doudney

George P. Marsh, as the result of his own researches, that the proportions of this Monument, as now designed, are precisely those of all the best-known Egyptian obelisks.
— from History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society by Frederick L. (Frederick Loviad) Harvey

“You're all right, pardner,” said the colonel, shaking him vigorously by the hand, “and if they don't feel like playing up to your lead, then, by the great and everlasting Sammy, we will make a new deal and play it alone!”
— from The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor

As has been indicated above, the various difficulties more or less metaphysical which must occur to every thoughtful student in considering Newton's laws of motion are not discussed, and probably such a discussion was beyond the scheme which the authors had in view.
— from Lord Kelvin: An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray

With much talk and discussion the tree that had been the scene of the stormy wooing was selected for the homestead, and the young wife at once set to work upon the foundation, while her spouse in his new rôle of lord and master stood on a higher twig and gave his opinions; much advice, no doubt, and plenty of instruction.
— from In Nesting Time by Olive Thorne Miller