But you must know, Pamela, that she is much incensed, that I will give no ear to a proposal of hers, of a daughter of my Lord ——, who, said he, neither in person, or mind, or acquirements, even with all her opportunities, is to be named in a day with my Pamela.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It was after this visit that Becky, who had paid her weekly bills, Becky who had made herself agreeable to everybody in the house, who smiled at the landlady, called the waiters "monsieur," and paid the chambermaids in politeness and apologies, what far more than compensated for a little niggardliness in point of money (of which Becky never was free), that Becky, we say, received a notice to quit from the landlord, who had been told by some one that she was quite an unfit person to have at his hotel, where English ladies would not sit down with her.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

But the last time I asked a member of Congress to dine, he sent me back a note in pencil on my own envelope that he would bring two of his friends with him, very respectable constituents from Yahoo city, or some such place; nature's noblemen, he said.”
— from Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams

He spends the night in prayer on Mount Olives.
— from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of The Church Universal by Levi

See America Uses, sundry, for acetylene, V Valuation of carbide, Value of acetylene, hygienic, enriching, pecuniary, of purifying materials, Valves, screw-down, for generators, Vapour, water, in acetylene, objections to, removal of, value of, Vehicular lamps, Ventilation of generator sheds, Vent-pipes, economy of, for carbide vessels, generators, holders, noise in, position of mouths of, size of, Vibration and incandescent lighting, Vieille, dissolved acetylene, Vigouroux, silicon in acetylene, Village installations, mains for, leakage in, supplies, Villard, liquid acetylene, Vines, treatment by acetylene of, for mildew and phylloxera, Violle and Féry, acetylene as standard of light, Vitiation of air by flames, Volume, alteration of, on dissociation, and weight of acetylene, molecular, of acetylene, Volume of acetylene passing through pipes, Volumes, gas, correction for temperature and pressure, W Washers, oil, water, Waste-pipes of generators, Water and calcium oxide, reaction between, and carbide, heat of reaction between, boiling-point, evolution of gas at, condensation of, in pipes, consumption of, in generators, convection currents in, freezing-point, evolution of gas at, heat absorbed in warming, conducting power of, of formation of, in excess, generators with, in holders, freezing of, use for decomposition, use for washing, jackets for generators, quality of, for portable generators, quantity required in carbide-to-water generators, scale in generators, solubility of acetylene in, of impurities in, of load in, specific gravity of, supply for automatic generators, non-automatic generators, yield of gas per unit of, Water-gas, enrichment with acetylene, Water-seals, as not-return valves, setting water-level in, Water-slide pendants for acetylene, Water-soluble impurities in acetylene, See also Ammonia and Sulphuretted hydrogen Water-to-carbide generators.
— from Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by W. J. Atkinson (William John Atkinson) Butterfield

But before I carry this resolution into effect, I think it a duty incumbent upon me, to make this my last official communication; to congratulate you on the glorious events which heaven has been pleased to produce in our favour; to offer my sentiments respecting some important subjects which appear to me to be intimately connected with the tranquillity of the United States: to take my leave of your excellency as a public character: and to give my final blessing to that country in whose service I have spent the prime of my life, for whose sake I have consumed so many anxious days and watchful nights, and whose happiness, being extremely dear to me, will always constitute no inconsiderable part of my own.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

Ultimately the government, which was now in possession of most of the supplies of energy-releasing material, fixed a certain number of units of energy as the value of a gold sovereign, declared a sovereign to be worth exactly twenty marks, twenty-five francs, five dollars, and so forth, with the other current units of the world, and undertook, under various qualifications and conditions, to deliver energy upon demand as payment for every sovereign presented.
— from The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The effect of this low charge was to develop a class of business which seems beneath the notice of the powerful company now in possession of most of the telegraphic lines in the kingdom.
— from Curiosities of Civilization by Andrew Wynter

The best of the Romans, I agree with you, are remote from such originals, if not in power of mind, or in acuteness of remark, or in sobriety of judgment, yet in the graces of composition.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor