“Ay,” muttered the skipper—I was close at his elbow, having followed him that I might be at hand if required—“ay, she is ashore, fast enough, and she will never come off again, for an hour of such pounding as she is now getting will make an end of her.
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood

But it was veritably her husband, in a new suit that was fiercely pressed and shaped, in new, gleaming, ox-blood shoes, with a hair-cut and a barber shave.
— from The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

'She is not a pauper, and she is not going to the poor-house either,' Harold exclaimed, while Jerry came in with her nein, nein, nein , which made the bystanders laugh, as Peterkin went on, addressing himself to Harold: 'You are her champion, hey, and intend to take care of her.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

"She is not a pauper, and she is not going to the poor-house either," Harold exclaimed, while Jerry came in with her " nien, nien ," which made the bystanders laugh, as Peterkin went on, addressing himself to Harold: "You are her champion, hey, and intend to take care of her.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

"If I ever get on intimate terms with them, which is very unlikely, I shall tell them that all this petting and spoiling is not good for the lad, and will only unfit him for his work in life.
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey

We have seen in the course of this work Polidoro and Salerno in Naples, Giulio in Mantua, Pellegrino in Modena, and Gaudenzio in Milan, distinguish themselves as the masters of eminent schools; and we find one school founded by Perino del Vaga in Genoa, which has maintained the splendour of its origin in a way inferior to none.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

And to this proportioned and harmonious realization, pleasure, pure and simple, is no guide at all.
— from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde

"I have no people, to call people, and she is not going to interfere.
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The church at Smyrna thus becomes the type of a suffering church, the representative of that condition of things foretold in the words of Christ, and constantly fulfilled in the history of His people, "A servant is not greater than his lord.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Revelation by William Milligan

My receipts fell off from that hour; in fact, instead of praises and sixpences, I now got nothing but curses and hard names; and at one hill, near “Horse-leap,” which I used in my prosperous days to “go at” in a slashing canter, amid a shower of encomiums, I was now obliged to stagger slowly up, with four-and-twenty small farmers, and maybe a priest, in full cry at my sulkiness, laziness, incivility, and other good gifts; and all this, ay, and more, for lack of a bit of whipcord.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever