To this letter Mr. Gibbs replied thus:— Dear Sir, —i cant make much of your letter except a riglemerole about pigs and dinamite and pictures but what they have to do with one another i dont know if you want some pork why dont you say so strait out like mr Hobson does i shall be killing one this week shall i send you a nice leg and remain Yours obedient Henry Gibbs.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Various

"I was thinking of the murder of your late employer," said Dan straightly.
— from The Mystery Queen by Fergus Hume

The elder and more accomplished among the students composed an agreeable part of the same society; and its animation was increased by a mixture of young ladies, either residents in the town, or occasional visitors, several of whom were equally distinguished for personal charms, for amiable manners, and cultivated minds.
— from Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

The Modern Pens not altogether slight, 190 Be Master of your Language e'er you write!
— from Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) by Samuel Wesley

I know every look in your eyes, every movement of your lips, every tone of your voice.
— from Cecilia: A Story of Modern Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Considering how much of your lives, especially as regards men of business, is taken up with money, its acquisition, its retention, its distribution, there are few things that have more to do with the vigour or feebleness of your Christian life than the way in which you handle these perishable things.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

possessed myself of your large estates—lived hateful to myself, detested by mankind—to do what?
— from Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Thomas Morton

In this towne also dwelleth one Grisling, deafe from a long time, who, besides his merry conceites, of counterfeyting by signes (like the Romane Pantomimi) any kinde of occupation or exercise, hath a strange quality, to vnderstand what you say, by marking the mouing of your lips, especially if you speake deliberately, of any ordinary matter, so as (contrary to the rules of nature, and yet without the helpe of arte) he can see words as they passe forth of your mouth: and of this I haue caused him to giue often experiments.
— from The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew