Besides,' said the Jew, recovering his self-possession, 'he has us now if he could only give us leg-bail again; and he must be in the same boat with us.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

But, as it has been repeatedly said, and well insisted on, the world cannot afford to lose any "document" whatsoever which bears, or may bear, in the slightest degree, on the story of its own growth and development, and out of which its true life has to be written.
— from The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash

“This is one of those personifications of rivers so frequent in the Grecian mythology, but in the similar myths is seen the impress of the genius of each people, austere and profoundly religious in India, graceful and devoted to the worship of external beauty in Greece.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And since one of these Glasses was plane, and the other spherical, their Intervals at those Rings must be in the same Progression.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

So I stood up, and said, When your ladyship will hardly permit me to stand, one might be indulged to sit down.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

What a difference there must be in the society which the two persons will wish to frequent, or be frequented by!
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

My blood is the same as Nancy's, and I love the sea.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

If I knew a Name ugly enough to belong to the above-described Face, I would feign one; but, to my unspeakable Misfortune, my Name is the only disagreeable Prettiness about me; so prithee make one for me that signifies all the Deformity in the World: You understand Latin, but be sure bring it in with my being in the Sincerity of my Heart, Your most frightful Admirer, and Servant , Hecatissa.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Sir A. Cooper never met with an example where the vessel passed on the inner side of the sac, and from this alone it may be inferred that such a position of the vessel is very rare.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

" The exposition in the last sentence, that the terms of the texts are not to be taken in their literal meaning, but in their spiritual one, and allude to a certain wondrous exaltation of the body, through religious influences, is significant, and is but one of a great number of instances of much that is obscure, to "the world's people," in the preachings of this remarkable man.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

His days saw, too, the highest pitch of architectural magnificence; and with Tacitus and Juvenal to adorn 271 it, one might be inclined to say that, as an age of Latin literature, the age of Trajan might hold its own against any earlier period of the Imperial rule.
— from Studies of Travel: Italy by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

I cannot but hope that some readers may be in this state of mind, and if there be but one such I must offer him encouragement and advice.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

Think what it must be in that shanty." "Very unpleasant, I should think.
— from The Burglar and the Blizzard: A Christmas Story by Alice Duer Miller

He moved back into the shadows; a name, tall, pale and with a black beard, passing in his little launch, at the call of the code-flag P. "Well, there it was, a vague and inconclusive episode, like so many others in my life.
— from Aliens by William McFee

For example, the circular bandage is formed by horizontal turns, each of which overlaps the one made before it; the spiral consists of spiral turns; the oblique follows a course oblique or slanting to the centre of the limb; and the recurrent folds back again to the part whence it started.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

Most beautiful is the site of La Charité, built terrace-wise, not on the skirts but on the very hem of the Loire, here no revolutionary torrent, sweeping away whole villages, leaving only church steeples visible above the engulfing waters, as I had once seen it at Nantes, but a broad, smooth, crystal expanse of sky-blue.
— from East of Paris: Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Matilda Betham-Edwards

"Mr. Babington, I think, sir," he said.
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

To be the daughter of a man born in that substantial family mansion—scion of a respectable old county family—was in itself a distinction far beyond anything Miss Rylance could boast, her grandfather having been a chemist and druggist in an obscure market town, and her father the architect of his own fortunes.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon