The Indians were exceedingly fond of the Doctor, and they had good reason for it; for I believe they never had such an useful man amongst them.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

The term was once applied to those who took false oaths for a consideration; but though the word has fallen into disuse there is no particular reason for imagining that the practice has.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

On that he turned to Francesca, and told her at a great rate, for in Italian he was glib, to go back to the Signora in the top garden and tell her he had encountered his old friend the Signora Arbuthnot, and was going for a walk with her and would present himself to her later.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Now I say, mother, pray don’t take to going there regularly, for if I was to see your good-humoured face that has always made home cheerful, turned into a grievous one, and the baby trained to look grievous too, and to call itself a young sinner (bless its heart) and a child of the devil (which is calling its dead father names); if I was to see this, and see little Jacob looking grievous likewise, I should so take it to heart that I’m sure I should go and list for a soldier, and run my head on purpose against the first cannon-ball I saw coming my way.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

A strong reason for interpreting the death of Osiris as the decay of vegetation rather than as the sunset is to be found in the general, though not unanimous, voice of antiquity, which classed together the worship and myths of Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and Demeter, as religions of essentially the same type.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Note 71 ( return ) [ familiars— i.e. attendant-demons.]
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

God help 'em!' said he, more convinced by his own presentation of the facts than by all Margaret had said, and suddenly renouncing the idea, which had but recently formed itself in a brain worn out by the day's fatigue and anxiety.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

That in fertile and populous regions not hostile, an army of one hundred to one hundred and twenty thousand men, when so far distant from the enemy as to be able safely to recover a considerable extent of country, may draw its resources from it, during the time occupied by any single operation.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

I liked him no better than at first, and had the same uneasy jealousy of him; but if I had any reason for it beyond a child’s instinctive dislike, and a general idea that Peggotty and I could make much of my mother without any help, it certainly was not THE reason that I might have found if I had been older.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"We'll have as good a time, boys, as can be expected in the circumstances, and then, by George, if they don't come to get us loose we'll make a rush for it.
— from Rose of the World by Egerton Castle

Put it on a religious footing, if you will, and I ought to take my mother as soon as possible down to York.
— from Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper

The masses of rocks through which the river forces its way at the Falls, are very grand and imposing; and the surrounding hills, rich with the autumnal tints, rivet the eye.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

But Phillips, believing Dr. Bryant to be responsible for it, declared that he knew the writer, and that Dana could see him at once if he would go to the State House in Boston.
— from Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb

The three-pounders were mounted on two-wheeled "galloping carriages," drawn by three horses; the six-pounders required four if not five horses. Ibid. , 12th August 1742.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

I have discussed rather fully the attitude of those who plead morality as a reason for ignoring the social necessity of combating venereal disease, because although there may not be many who seriously and understandingly adopt so anti-social and inhuman an attitude there are certainly many who are glad at need of the existence of so fine an excuse for their moral indifference or their mental indolence.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

Bessie took them right up, and the rest followed immediately.
— from Bessie in the City by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

“It might have been better for him if he had,” returned Frank, in a manner that surprised himself, for never before had he made such an ungallant remark.
— from Frank Merriwell's Alarm; Or, Doing His Best by Burt L. Standish