"Mine owne deare loue, I no sooner conceiued an hope, that I should bee made a mother by thee, but with it entred the consideration of a mothers duty, and shortly after followed the apprehension of danger that might preuent mee from executing that care I so exceedingly desired, I meane in religious training our Childe.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

my own dear lord, I need not ask you to be the brother to my poor sister you have been to me.
— from The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

He made a last effort for the contemporaneous life by asking the English-speaking clerk if there were any literary men of distinction living in Nuremberg, and the clerk said there was not one.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2 by William Dean Howells

At Westminster, that costly work of yours, Mine own dear lord, I now shall never see."
— from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook

His manner of depicting landscapes is not by meticulous description, but by apparently casual touches of color, brilliantly illuminating what might to the ordinary observer seem monotonous and colorless landscapes.
— from The Spell of the Heart of France: The Towns, Villages and Chateaus about Paris by André Hallays