In the meanwhile Clairmont had brought up my niece’s luggage, and I went away promising to return and see her another day.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Is it indeed possible to abstain from the conviction, that we have detected the reverend figure of Father Raymond of Capua, General of the Dominicans, very decidedly laughing in his sleeve at that poor ill-used people, to whose proneness to be deceived, Rome has ever answered with so ready and so hearty a decipiatur?
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

As polygamy is not allowed among them, to satisfy the lust of variety, they have a society called Arreoy, in which every woman is common to every man; and when any of these women happens to have a child, it is smothered in the moment of its birth, that it may not interrupt the pleasures of its infamous mother; but in this juncture, should nature relent at so horrid a deed, even then the mother is not allowed to save her child, unless she can find a man who will patronise it as a father; in which case, the man is considered as having appropriated the woman to himself
— from Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

She wasn't hungry, her nose was running, and she had a dry cough.
— from Rattle OK by Harry Warner

When she went forward, it was with considerable reluctance; and she had a dim, hurt sense of having been imposed upon, or somehow or another injured.
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

More recently a series has appeared depicting Skanderbeg, the warrior hero of the Albanians, and these were overprinted in March, 1914, with an inscription " 7 Mars.
— from The Postage Stamp in War by Frederick John Melville

Miss Matson, recollecting her voice, came now from the back parlour, most courteously rejoicing at seeing her; and disguising her surprise, that she should again enquire for so cheap and ordinary a little lodging.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

Then Eric knew, according to her custom on the warm mornings, that she came alone to bathe in the river, as she had always done from a child.
— from Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

All day, muddy roads and straining horses; all day, a long pull up-hill; half the day rain in the wet lovely bush, starring and sparkling the exquisite tree ferns, those fine ladies of the forest; crystal-dropping the thick coat of ferns that tapestries the tall cliffs, shutting in our road.
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw

You will require a stout horse, a disguise, and a well-filled purse.
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty