“Finally, one day, my uncle took a hand in the matter.
— from Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Prœsten Sundt observes, that it is strange, living, as they do, in small detached bands, they should still retain so many usages, traditions, and habits in common.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

For my part, I have formed the project of dexterously leading my wife along, up to her fortieth year, without letting her think of adultery, just as poor Musson used to amuse himself in leading some simple fellow from the Rue Saint-Denis to Pierrefitte without letting him think that he had left the shadows of St. Lew’s tower.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It is to be considered as a Board of which the Admiralty or an Officer in command of a Brigade or Corps may make use, to assist him in arriving at a correct judgment on any subject upon which it may be expedient to institute an inquiry.
— from The Organisation of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers Explained by Brassey, Thomas Brassey, Earl

I was really thinking of my uncle taking a house in the neighbourhood.
— from A Flat Iron for a Farthing; or, Some Passages in the Life of an only Son by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

The mean old dog of a first mate undertook to argue him into leaving the Englishman to his fate, when he was met with a stern rebuke.
— from Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer; or, The Cruise of the Queer Fish by Herrick Johnstone

Then I reproached myself with my unthankful temper, and how I had repined at my solitary condition; and now what would I give to be on shore there again?
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

But his master used to assist him in making up his lost time.
— from Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. Fourth Edition by Samuel Smiles

For my part, I have formed the project of dexterously leading my wife along, up to her fortieth year, without letting her think of adultery, just as poor Musson used to amuse himself in leading some simple fellow from the Rue Saint-Denis to Pierrefitte without letting him think that he had left the shadows of St. Lew's tower."
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2 by Honoré de Balzac