And then, when you have had six months to think things over, if, after mature consideration, you can persuade yourself to write a few words of regret, acknowledging your error— Dr. Stockmann.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

Mrs. Linden had been sitting up for two or three days, so far had she recovered, and yet Ellen did not feel that it was safe to venture a full declaration of the truth.
— from Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

There was a weight in y e ayr, as of coming thunder; the screaming, ever and anon, of Juno and Argus, inclined me to mellancholie, as it alwaies does: and at length I beganne to note y e moon rising, and y e deepening clearnesse of y e water, and y e lazy motion of y e barges, and y e flashes of light whene'er y e rowers dipt theire oars.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

He himself admits, and perhaps even a little exaggerates, his attitude of Athanasius contra mundum in this respect, amassing with relish expressions, in the sense opposite to his own, from such representative and yet essentially diverse authorities as Lord Beaconsfield, Mr Gladstone, Sir Erskine May, Mr Froude, and Mr Lowe.
— from Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury

I am resolved, and your entreaties do but heighten my pain of thwarting your—the only pain that in this supreme hour I am experiencing.
— from The Trampling of the Lilies by Rafael Sabatini

It is in your good conduct, your resignation, and your excellent discipline that they hope to find safety; that which you have maintained up to the present time is the best guarantee of it; and of this they hope for a continuance.
— from Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon by Rapp, Jean, comte

And if the Citizens had come as they requested, all y e day would not haue serued for salutatiōs.
— from The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade by Francisco López de Gómara

In this view, black altogether compounded of blue with red and yellow, each deep and transparent, and duly subordinated [404] according to its powers, will give the most powerful and transparent blacks; although, like most other blacks, they dry badly in oil.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

Usually he would be met with a bow and downcast eyes as the owner replied: "As your excellency decides."
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

"We have explained to you," said they, "what hypocrites the British are,—what dust they have thrown in your eyes for more than a century—how they have grown rich at your expense, deliberately keeping India in ignorance and subjection, in poverty and vice, and divided against itself.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

We sometimes think that the funny situations in the pictures in the comic papers are too absurd to be real, and yet every day there happen things quite as absurd as any there depicted.
— from Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895 by Various