“Oh! D—— it, when one has the means of doing a kind thing by a friend, I hate to be pitiful.”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Coming home, my wife and I went and saw Kate Joyce, who is still in mighty sorrow, and the more from something that Dr. Stillingfleete should simply say in his sermon, of her husband’s manner of dying, as killing himself. 29th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Many other deeds also King Gram did.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

A team of scientists and students last summer at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland developed a faster and otherwise improved version of a method originally developed (and kept proprietary) by IBM about 12 years ago.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

VIII June 19th.—I had only got as far as the top of the stairs when the locking of Laura's door suggested to me the precaution of also locking my own door, and keeping the key safely about me while I was out of the room.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Manual of directions and Key.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The weather was singularly lovely, with that combination of softness and brilliancy which is only known to the rare true summer days of England: all below so green, above so blue—days of which we have about six 222.png 403 in the year, and recall vaguely when we read of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, of Damsel and Knight, in Spenser's golden Summer Song, or of Jacques, dropped under the oak tree, watching the deer amidst the dells of Ardennes.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

The impression conveyed by Arrows’ appearance and manner would be, “That is a man of character, a man of decision, a keen observer, who looks as if he were making notes for a book satirizing the follies of mankind.”
— from The Haunted Room: A Tale by A. L. O. E.

Manual of directions and key, by Rudolf Pintner and Bess V. Cunningham.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1951 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

If a correspondent uses improper language toward you, let your reply be polite, even if it is severe; you will thus inflict a double wound—showing yourself to be a man of dignity, and know how to preserve your self-respect.
— from Beadle's Dime Book of Practical Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen Being a Guide to True Gentility and Good-Breeding, and a Complete Directory to the Usages and Observances of Society by Anonymous

In the one case it rests on elegant forms and fashionable toilets—in the other, it sees nothing but a mass of dark and kneeling figures, or a representation of holy and scriptural subjects.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

“Land o’ Goshen, how you frightened me, Obadiah Dale,” Aunt Kate reproached him as soon as she recovered from her surprise.
— from The Triumph of Virginia Dale by John Francis

And at the close of the meeting one day a keen, cultured Christian woman whom I knew came up for a word.
— from Quiet Talks on Prayer by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon