The conversation of Sokrates had taught Xenophon how to make the most of his own large experience and observation.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

Turner's Memoirs of his own Life , Edinburgh, 1829, 4to, pp.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

The average farmer in the United States doesn’t net fifty a month on his own land, especially when his wages of superintendence and of direct personal labor are subtracted.
— from The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London

"She simply means she wants a man of her own, like every blessed mother's daughter of us," explained Effie May comfortably, "and that's what I'm trying to help her to, and it makes her sort of ashamed because she's got to be helped.
— from Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

The wedding-dress was a marvel of her own lovely embroidery.
— from Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Emily Sarah Holt

Buy the work, John, thou wilt have no reason to begrudge the price; it is equally valuable to the man of “high” or “low estate;”—to him to whom dinner is the chief business of the day, who merely lives to eat, than eats to live—who seeth the sun rise with no other hope than that he should fill his belly, before it sets, who is not satisfied till he is surfeited; as well as to the man who lives according to old English hospitality, and eateth merely to satisfy nature and his better health.
— from Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle by Anonymous

He raised the needed money from usurers by giving them a mortgage on his own life estate in Lone itself.
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The expression, however, of those eyes was now calm and soft, while sometimes holding her hand in his, sometimes playing with a crown of wild roses he had put on his companion's head, he mingled one rich curl after another with the green leaves and the blushing flowers; and, leaning with his left arm against the embrasure of the window, high above her head, as she sat gazing out upon the landscape, he looked down upon the beautiful creature, through the mazes of whose hair his other hand was straying, with a smile strangely mingled of affection for her, and mockery of his own light employment.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James