They showed me that my husband had been most cruelly robbed and mistreated; men had traded upon his honor, and had ruined him.
— from Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant

This worthy lady was astonished beyond measure at the recital; it seemed so strange to her, that a gentleman of Mr. Munden's birth, fortune, and education, should ever entertain the sordid design of obliging his wife to convert to the family uses what had been settled on her for her own private expences, that she could not have given credit to it from any other mouth than that of the weeping sufferer: his killing of the squirrel also, though a trifle in itself, she could not help thinking denoted a most cruel, revengeful, and mean mind.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

Then there is Millie Gover at Rembert and Lila Brown at Smallwood, de station where Marse Charlie Ray and my Mistress Luray was killed by a railroad train runnin' into de automobile they was in.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

B. Forsyth Captain Retallack Captain Pemberton Colonel Boomer J. Walker E. Jackson F. H. Andrews Miss Mountain D. D. Young C. N. Montizambert Miss Cochran Rev. A. Mountain Mrs. Carroll F. Burroughs W. F. Wood Robert Hamilton Wm.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

I will also request the reader, when the two volumes may diverge in tone or statement, to attach greater importance to the second, as the result of wider and more careful reading and more matured reflection.
— from Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. by Standish O'Grady

And the two pairs of lovers, Mr. Cyril Raymond and Miss Maud Bell above stairs, and Mr. Reginald Bach and Miss Doris Lytton below (they were really all of them on the ground floor, the butler's room being the common trysting-place), served as delightful examples of natural selection—both on their own part and that of the management—and were as fresh and healthy as the most eugenical could desire.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 by Various

We ought also to take nonce, that this prodigy appeared thrice in the same century, and always on extraordinary occasions, in which many circumstances rendered a miraculous manifestation of the divine power highly credible.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

“It’s Mary Cecily Rowantree, after my mamma,” said the little girl.
— from Azalea at Sunset Gap by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Miss C. R. and Mrs. M. A. J. 1.00 NEW YORK, $1,191.38.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 02, February, 1879 by Various