You fear life, I fancy, on the principle of the hand of little employment.
— from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

An affidavit among the papers of the House of Lords, excusing the attendance of a witness, states that Thomas Tallcott has recently lost his wife and one child by smallpox, and that he himself, six of his children and three of his servants are now visited with the same disease.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

I have thought a good deal at times of the position of the holders of large estates they cannot afford to keep up.
— from The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Female somewhat less, with the black on the forehead and throat tinged with brown, the crimson patch on the head of less extent, the sides and rump destitute of red.
— from A Synopsis of the Birds of North America by John James Audubon

The rest of my time here was passed in looking about the city, and in talking with some of the "Forest City" people, who are pardonably proud of their home on Lake Erie.
— from Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns Along the Route; and Regions Traversed Beyond the Mississippi; Together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the Journey by Willard W. Glazier