Every gold embroidery, on whatever material it may be executed, requires a stout foundation, which has to be sewn into the frame, in doing which, hold the webbing loosely, almost in folds, and stretch the stuff very tightly.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

That money is mine by every right, and I won’t lose it.
— from In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing

Few young men, I must believe, ever remember when in a large hotel, at night, with their companions, that—opening into the corridors through which they tramp like a body of mounted cavalry upon a foray, with appropriate musical accompaniments —may be the apartments of the weary and the sick; or, that, separated from the room in which they prolong their nocturnal revels, by only the thinnest of partitions, lies a timid and lonely woman, shrinking and trembling more and more nervously at each successive burst of mirth and song, or worse, that effectually robs her of repose.
— from The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Margaret C. (Margaret Cockburn) Conkling

I always feel the wisdom sprouting out all over me when I get up very early in the morning; but I’m afraid I should spend all the extra money I made by early rising in buying an extra breakfast, for it also makes me so tremendously hungry.
— from Pop-Guns: One Serious and One Funny by Aunt Fanny

By the determination of Mr. Hurst, and the resolutions of the Board of Trade, it is much to be apprehended that the native mercantile interest must be exceedingly reduced.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

This scree gully faces Kirkfell, and but for the usually poor light on this north face of the mountain it might be easily recognized from that side.
— from Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition by Owen Glynne Jones