“I do not see that,” said Rachel, feeling the need of decision in order to reassure her mother; “it is very sad and distressing in some ways, but no one can look at Miss Williams without seeing that his return has done her a great deal of good; and whether they marry or not, one can only be full of admiration and respect for them.”
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Most of the phenomena of the ecstatic life which are shown us in the lives and writings of Saints Bridget, Gertrude, Mechtilde, Hildegarde, Catherine of Sienna, Catherine of Genoa, Catherine of Bologna, Colomba da Rieti, Lidwina of Schiedam, Catherine Vanini, Teresa of Jesus, Anne of St. Bartholomew, Magdalen of Pazzi, Mary Villana, Mary Buonomi, Marina d' Escobar, Crescentia de Kaufbeuern, and many other nuns of contemplative orders, are also to be found in the history of the interior life of Anne Catherine Emmerich.
— from The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anna Katharina Emmerich

M o n o córd o , an instrument with many stringes of one sound, which with little pieces of cloth make distinct sounds.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

It was just then that a terrible pestilence fell on Rome, and he made the people form seven great processions—of clergy, of monks, of nuns, of children, of men, of wives, and of widows—all singing litanies to entreat that the plague might be turned away.
— from Young Folks' History of Rome by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The vaïce did mock our neämes, our cheers, Our merry laughs, our hands' loud claps, An' mother's call "Come, come, my dears" — my dears ; Or "Do as I do bid, bad chaps" — bad chaps .
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

Paley, who was probably scratching his head at the moment, offers no other confirmation of his assertion, than that it is the most difficult thing in the world to get a wig made even , seldom as it is that the face is made awry.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 by Various

His desire to get into communication with England is shown in a letter which he addressed as follows: ‘To my unknown friends and countrymen, desiring this letter by your good means, or news, or copy of this, may come into the hands of one or more of my acquaintances in Limehouse, or elsewhere, or in Kent, in Gillingham by [124] Rochester.’
— from St Nicotine of the Peace Pipe by Edward Vincent Heward

A man of no outward clamor of character, no hint of bluster or dash, quiet-voiced, self-controlled, but not self-asserting, he yet displayed vast power as an organizer, as a tactician, and in masterly combinations of large forces so as to produce the most telling effects.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens