However, I could easily strangle or stab him, set fire to his castle, and run away by the light of it, accompanied by some handsome pirate, with whom I might henceforward live at my ease in a cavern on the sea-shore, dressing his dinners one moment, and my own sweet person the next in pearls and rubies, stolen by him, during some of his plundering expeditions, from the fair throat and arms of a shrieking Circassian beauty, whose lord he had knocked on the head.
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

Seek it not in riches; seek it not in power and rank; seek it not in pleasure; seek it not in learning.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

I could express myself in English, so as to be understood as well as are most children of my age; and as Sir Charles would not allow me to be taught nonsense, I put a right signification upon the words I used.
— from Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston

A distinctively English party grew up, both in Oxford and away from it, strong in eminent names, in proportion as Roman sympathies showed themselves.
— from The Oxford Movement; Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church

The repeated geometrical patterns, or rosettes symmetrically grouped in squares, are worked by the needle in punto a rammendo ( see Plate 3 ), and the curious stitch called punto treccia, or tress-work, is introduced, as well as the punto a stuora, or matting stitch.
— from Seven Centuries of Lace by Maria Margaret Pollen

If Jerry's careless philandering had thrown all the forces of the girl's nature into panic and revolt, surely it was a part of the new woman-thought in the world that Jerry's wife should work for her restoration.
— from Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke