Madame saw me, I saw Madame, Rosine saw us both: there was no mutual recognition.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

A GREAT MAN H AVING , a priori, intended to dedicate The Amours of my Uncle Toby to Mr. ***——I see more reasons, a posteriori, for doing it to Lord *******.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

It may be regarded as one of the most delicate indicators of the biological integrity of foodstuffs; however, as Falk and his co-workers have shown, the enzyme property of living matter is still more readily destroyed.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

"Then," said I, "a man, it seems, may report it for a truth?" Sag.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

To make it seem more real and pleasant, I shall call you the Marchioness, do you hear?’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Though Jones was very unfit for any kind of company, and would have preferred being alone, yet he could not resist the importunities of the honest Quaker; who was the more desirous of sitting with him, from having remarked the melancholy which appeared both in his countenance and behaviour; and which the poor Quaker thought his conversation might in some measure relieve.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Having, a priori, intended to dedicate The Amours of my Uncle Toby to Mr. ...—I see more reasons, a posteriori, for doing it to Lord........
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

I was now utterly amazed at his behavior, and firmly resolved that we should not part until I had satisfied myself in some measure respecting him.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is so much respected as in America, or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Metheglin is still made round Dartmoor, but it is only good and "heady" when many years old.
— from A Book of Dartmoor Second Edition by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

'Come, mother, I see Mrs. Ross standing in the drawing-room window; she is evidently waiting for us.'
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

As far as can be ascertained, they were first manufactured in Switzerland, melt readily, and have a correspondingly large amount of fat, resulting from the addition of cacao butter, which distinguishes them from ordinary chocolates.
— from The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao Preparations by Paul Zipperer

And we may add, for the benefit of the ardent but foolish supporters of the Van Meter and such like schemes, a further extract from the same correspondent: “Attempts to allow the people to elect their parish priests without the permission of, and even in direct opposition to, the bishop of the diocese have been made in some Mantuan rural districts and elsewhere, but hitherto with no extensive or decisive results; and the Gavazzi, Passaglia, Andrea, and others, who would have ventured on a reforming movement within the church itself, have met with no support whatever, either on the part of the government authorities or of public opinion.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

In front of us at a distance of twenty miles, in sullen magnificence, rose the picturesque range of the Madison, with the insulated rock, Mount Washington, and the sharp pinnacle of Ward's Peak prominently in the foreground.
— from The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870 by Nathaniel Pitt Langford

The praise has been very sweet; and that I may in some measure repay you for your kindness, I am going to tell you a true story of a little bird that I owned at the time Toby's history was being written, and who sat on the leaves of the book, keeping me company far into the night.
— from Harper's Young People, May 31, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

"But if I had, and then repented of my fault in doing so, should you not have been willing to help me in setting myself right with myself? Of course, after what had passed, it was a trouble to me when it came.
— from The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

Yet the sunny distances are as much a marvel of colour in their pale blue that has so much intensity, so much real vivacity.
— from The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark

With respect to the Curetes, some facts are related which belong more immediately, some more remotely, to the history of the Ætolians and Acarnanians.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

But hark you wealthy merchants, who for prize Send forth your well man'd ships where sun doth rise, After three years when men and meat is spent, My rich Commodityes pay double rent.
— from Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell