Suddenly, however, the manners of Raymond changed; he appeared to desire to find opportunities of bringing about a return to kindness and intimacy with my sister.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"What will the Paris salons say when they see a girl of my own rank carry her adoration for a lover who is condemned to death to such a pitch as this?
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

Over the mantel in Grandfather Sterling's dining-room hung the picture of a great Newfoundland dog, painted so true to life that it seemed possible to run one's hand through the masses of rough curly hair as the big honest brown eyes looked down wistfully at the table just below the heavy oak frame.
— from Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 by Various

Then a moment of reflection calmed her, and for the sake of her projects she permitted Pascal to keep his opinion, and replied, with a half-smile: "Evidently you do not like the prince."
— from Luxury--Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

3. Under the former Act, the members of Relief Committees had authority to issue tickets, which entitled persons to obtain employment on the Public Works; a system which, it was found, led to abuses, numbers having obtained employment on such tickets who did not require relief.
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

An habitual drunkard was punished by having a great D made of "Redd Cloth" hung around his neck, or sewed on his clothing, and he was disfranchised.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

he asked; and after a moment of rapid counting he answered his own question: “Something more than a hundred, eh?”
— from The Road Builders by Samuel Merwin