You may guess how strangely I felt as I heard my own symptoms so exactly described in those which had been experienced by the poor girl who, but for the catastrophe which followed, would have been at that moment a visitor at my father's chateau.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

What appears to me most to be dreaded is that, in the midst of the small incessant occupations of private life, ambition should lose its vigor and its greatness—that the passions of man should abate, but at the same time be lowered, so that the march of society should every day become more tranquil and less aspiring.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Well, yes, in a manner of speakin',” said Eliza doubtfully.
— from Back to Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce

You may guess how strangely I felt as I heard my own symptoms so exactly described in those which had been experienced by the poor girl who, but for the catastrophe which followed, would have been at that moment a visitor at my father's château.
— from In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

One day when my young lady happened to be present with my other sitters (she even dropped in, when it was convenient, for a chat), I asked her to be so good as to lend a hand in getting tea—a service with which she was familiar and which was one of a class that, living as I did in a small way, with slender domestic resources, I often appealed to my models to render.
— from The Real Thing and Other Tales by Henry James

A little later, and one [Pg 206] has a vision of a young man of short stature, elegantly dressed, who every day or two rides up to door or window, springs from his horse, calls for a particular kind of ice, which he imbibes with a sort of nervous haste, and then disappears.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

Not, however, possessing the ability or means of swaying such extended domains, he found himself, after his armies had suffered most frightful loss of life, compelled to retreat from Ethiopia and to return to Egypt.
— from Claimants to Royalty by John Henry Ingram

"In raising the mirth of stupids ."— Steele . " Eatings, drinkings, wakings, sleepings, walkings, talkings, sayings, doings —all were for the good of the public; there was not such a things as a secret in the town.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Trades’ Unions, hitherto considered inventions of the devil himself, were now petted and patronised as perfectly legitimate institutions, and as useful means of spreading sound economical doctrines amongst the workers.
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels

The ample supply of poultry, of all descriptions, fed in coops on the poop, and a small flock of sheep, perhaps from twenty-five to forty in number, maintained there on hay, &c. enable the captain, for the most part, to exhibit fresh meat, of some sort, every day; which added to abundance of prime beef and pork for his use, together with tongues, pickles, sauces of all kinds, potatoes, rice, pastry, olives, &c. &c. form a tout ensemble , where even the most dainty may find something acceptable to the palate.
— from The East India Vade-Mecum, Volume 1 (of 2) or, complete guide to gentlemen intended for the civil, military, or naval service of the East India Company. by Thomas Williamson