In spite of his calculations and caution as to money,—in spite of his well-considered arrangements and the comfortable provision for his future ease which he had proposed to himself, he was a man who had not his temper so much under control as to enable him to postpone his anger to his prudence.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

But, by God, I'm damned if I'll use these cartridges they make us carry, against the enemy.
— from The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela

Along with the normal effect of such financial inventions in developing all forms of trade and industry, there arose a remarkable series of projects and schemes of the wildest and most unstable character, and the early eighteenth century saw many losses and constant fluctuations in the realm of finance.
— from An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney

He knew well that he had a rival; and although a touch of jealousy might have been the real cause of his retention of that letter until reaching Lundy's Lane, for he suspected that there was another one inside; yet, he was too true a gentleman to make unwarranted capital at the expense of the absent lover.
— from In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown