The merchant, exasperated at this extravagant demand, told him flatly he had already disposed of his daughter to Valentine, who, he believed, was a much more deserving man, and that he was ready to wait upon the magistrate who had granted the warrant, in order to give bail for his future son-in-law.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Fancy me, with my education, and those early dreams, which had almost ripened into realities, turning counter-jumper, or a clerk in a railway-office, which last was, you know, my occupation for some time.
— from The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 2 of 2 by Francis A. Leyland

The cattle make every attempt to escape, dodging in and out and crowding among their kind; but right on their quarter, gradually forcing them to the edge of the herd, keeps the puncher, until finally, as a last effort, the cow and the calf rush through the supporting line, when, after a terrific race, she is turned into another herd, and is called “the cut.”
— from Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington

Courage, of course, was valued above everything; Caesar practised with unrivalled mastery the art of stimulating martial emulation and the esprit de corps, so that the pre-eminence accorded to particular soldiers and divisions appeared even to those who were postponed as the necessary hierarchy of valour.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Miss Cadwallader's pretty face lay back on the pillow, her eyes shut tight, and her open mouth expressing all the ecstatic delight that could be expressed without sound.
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

But the German mystics of the fourteenth century, with their mighty experience and their extraordinary depth, carried him still farther in this direction.
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

There the matter ended, and the excitement died away, only to be revived by another wreck, when a similar scene would ensue.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

But everybody pays him great respect, everybody commends his meat—that is, his money; everybody admires the exquisite dressing and ordering of it—that is, his clerk of the kitchen, or his cook; everybody loves his hospitality—that is, his vanity.
— from Cowley's Essays by Abraham Cowley

The lender had examined the property in company with a mining engineer, and this expert doubtless took away with him some ore to analyse at his leisure.
— from Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Robert Barr