“You forget,” he said with a queer pride, “I can hold on, too—I'm a Forsyte myself.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Coryndon could never get away from the other man's point of view; it dogged him in great things and in small, and he was obliged to realize Hartley's pleasure in seeing him, and his further pleasure in carrying him off to a house where he himself enjoyed life thoroughly.
— from The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Marjorie Douie

From whence I concluded, (as I told him) that he had never read over the Gospels ; truly he could not say that he had read 'em carefully, but yet that in reading the History of what had passed in Christendom, he observed that most of the Quarrels in which this part of the World had been engaged, arose from Contentions among the Christian Priesthood .
— from An Account of the Growth of Deism in England by William Stephens

262 In an unpublished letter to Miss Stisted, she says: "My pet, I came here on Tuesday...
— from The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright

At last we turned to re-ascend—for the tide was rising—after our leader had congratulated us on being, perhaps, the only white men who had ever seen Ance Biscayen—a congratulation which was premature; for, as we went to climb up the Matapalo-root ladder, we were stopped by several pairs of legs coming down it, which belonged, it seemed, to a bathing party of pleasant French people, ‘marooning’ (as picnicking is called here) on the island; and after them descended the yellow frock of a Dominican monk, who, when landed, was discovered to be an old friend, now working hard among the Roman Catholic Negroes of Port of Spain.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley

WHEN the Physician is come, he ought to address the Patient with Chearfulness, and blame those Fears and melancholy Apprehensions which give many over too much into the Power of the Distemper, by cutting off all Hopes of Recovery.
— from Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion by John Quincy

Using the influence of a brother who had been successful in politics, Izaak Curry had obtained timber concessions in several directions about Five Fingers, and now built [183] himself a cabin near the shore, but hidden back in the spruce.
— from A Gentleman of Courage: A Novel of the Wilderness by James Oliver Curwood

In metaphysics, how matchless the razor-like acuteness with which Hamilton could distinguish, divide, and clear up the questions that lay piled in confused heaps over the subject of perception.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith