“This is not, madam, a slight thing; Mr Eggleston has a large family and a small fortune, and that, into the bargain, very much encumbered; it cannot, therefore, be expected that he will knowingly connive at cheating himself, by submitting to your being actually married, and still enjoying your estate though your husband does not take your name.” Cecilia, now, summoning more presence of mind, answered, “Mr Eggleston, sir, has, at least, nothing to fear from imposition: those with whom he has, or may have any transactions in this affair, are not accustomed to practice it.”
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

Madame Célival must be about thirty-six, but she is very good-looking; she is an alluring brunette; her eyes are most expressive, she has a lovely figure and graceful outlines; there is something fascinating, something voluptuous in her whole aspect, which seduces all the men.
— from The Bashful Lover (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIX) by Paul de Kock

"I wonder what that means exactly," said he, at last.
— from Margaret Capel: A Novel, vol. 2 of 3 by Ellen Wallace

[pg 305] "Stick your arm through mine, Eileen," said he, "and let us be comfortable as we go along, for the pair of us haven't had a talk for a long time, and Caeltia here wants to talk to you as well as me."
— from The Demi-gods by James Stephens

"The pup is mad enough," says he, And luggin' in his axe, He gev the wretched tarrier A pair of awful cracks, That stretched him out upon the floor, As dead as carpet-tacks. moral.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

Of Rome he says, with an emphasis doubtless enforced by his Mohammedan experiences, "She has already lost the allegiance of the East; Alexandria, Antioch, Africa, and Asia are separate from her; Constantinople has broken loose from her; the interior of Spain knows nothing of the pope."
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper