I was acquainted with an elderly doctor of great experience in those matters; I consulted him, and he promised to set me to rights in two months; he proved as good as his word.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I guess Mr. Phillips is a Grit too because Prissy Andrews’s father is one, and Ruby Gillis says that when a man is courting he always has to agree with the girl’s mother in religion and her father in politics.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Had Agnes been capable of exulting in a consciousness of being revenged, another source of exultation might have been hers, provided she had ever deigned to inquire concerning her profligate seducer, whom she wrongfully accused of having neglected to make inquiries concerning her and her child.
— from The Father and Daughter: A Tale, in Prose by Amelia Opie

"I caught him asleep" does not mean, "I caught him, and he was asleep."
— from Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg

"It must have been a subtle poison, indeed," rejoined the Prince; "Gadsden tells me it cost him all his skill to save the Earl.
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

I esteem her, I admire her; and yet my impressions concerning her are harsh—perhaps uncharitable.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

And that appeared every day, sheering the blue void above the forest, hovering majestically in circles hour after hour and then, at last, toward sundown, setting its sublime course westward, straight into the blinding disk of the declining sun.
— from In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

And, moreover, in conclusion, how an hour before (that is, before I reached the Cobb) Master Thomas Tye, surveyor of the port of Lyme, and some of his men, had rowed out to the ships themselves for information, gone aboard the frigate, and had not since been seen.
— from The Black Box: A Tale of Monmouth's Rebellion by W. Bourne Cooke

Every man in Castelcicala, having a habitation in which he may be said to be settled,—no matter whether it be a house of his own, or a mere lodging,—has the right of suffrage.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

He had made it clear half a hundred times, though without offering another formal proposal, that he would be rejoiced and thankful above measure if she threw in her lot with him, and married him, and accompanied him to Canada.
— from The Virgin in Judgment by Eden Phillpotts