It would also have been natural that I should have expressed the disgust and tedium which I was likely to feel among beings whose whole souls were centred in field-sports or more degrading pastimes—that I should have complained of the habitual intemperance of the family in which I was a guest, and the difficulty and almost resentment with which my uncle, Sir Hildebrand, received any apology for deserting the bottle.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Walter Scott

It was accompanied, she told me, by a note from Lord Ilbury to my uncle, supporting her request; and in the afternoon I received a message to attend my uncle in his room.
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

If Mr. Kipling goes on in the vein of these later years, he may ultimately survive his reputation, as many a good man has done before him.
— from Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps

It was rank treason that he talked, such as would have brought him to Tyburn if it had been spoken in London in indiscreet company; it was that treason which her Grace herself had made possible by her faithlessness to God and man; such treason as God Himself must have mercy upon, since He reads all hearts and their intentions.
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

Fortunately for everybody concerned, you clipped her wings so effectually that she will be unable to do any more mischief until she has refitted; and, to do this, she will have to go into port somewhere.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood