The origin of the word has often been asked for in literary journals and books, but only one man, until recently, ever hazarded an etymology—Jonathan Bee.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

"I am sorry to say, ma'am, in a most unhappy rupture:— Edward is dismissed for ever from his mother's notice.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

But bashfulness is not only a bad and inconsiderate manager of money, but also in more important matters makes us reject expediency and reason.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

"And if the suit SHOULD make us rich, Esther—which it may, you know!" said Richard to crown all.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The free institutions which the inhabitants of the United States possess, and the political rights of which they make so much use, remind every citizen, and in a thousand ways, that he lives in society.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

While this was going on Warren got his men up, repulsed Early, and drove him more than a mile.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Had Niemeyer only taken more intelligent stock of the particular quarter from which so many unexpected refusals emanated, it is possible that he might have drawn valuable conclusions.
— from The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue) by H. G. (Hugh George) Durnford

Trajan, Marcus Ulpius , Roman emperor, born in Spain; his great deeds in arms won him a consulship in 91, and in 97 Nerva invited him to be his colleague and successor; a year later he became sole emperor, ruled the empire with wisdom and vigour, set right the finances, upheld an impartial justice, and set on foot various schemes of improvement; suppressed the Christians as politically dangerous, but with no fanatic extravagance; remained above all a warrior and true leader of the legions, and crowned his military fame by his successful conquest of Dacia, in commemoration of which he is said to have erected the famous Trajan Column, which still stands in Rome (56-117).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

The two young ladies, however, protested in the prettiest manner possible, their determination not to quit "grandmamma," as they affectionately termed their guardian's mother; and while they were thus employed, my uncle Ro entered the room, having just paid a visit to the kitchen.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

I suppose you would have me unhesitatingly receive every word he says?"
— from Ester Ried by Pansy

You are the consolation of the afflicted; deign, then, to intercede in my favour with your Divine Son, my Saviour, Jesus, that He may deliver me from the burden of my sins, dissipate the darkness of my understanding, remove every irregular affection from my heart, and restrain all the efforts and temptations of my enemies, that, being aided by this grace, I may henceforth so order my life that, under your protection, I may arrive at the happy port of eternal life.
— from The Month of Mary, According to the Spirit of St. Francis of Sales Thirty-One Considerations With Examples, Prayers, Etc. by Francis, de Sales, Saint

I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
— from English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

Union with Jesus Christ by faith makes us 'righteous even as He is righteous.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren