In fact, neither side, in spite of all their loud talk of American Republicanism, had yet mastered enough of its true spirit to be able to see that so long as public officers did their whole duty to all classes alike, it was not in the least the affair of their constituents whether they chose to spend their hours of social relaxation in their shirt-sleeves or in dress coats.
— from Thomas Hart Benton by Theodore Roosevelt

On all sides of the 'low' there is rain, and you remember how it rained here, yesterday morning, early?"
— from The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

[Pg 479] In Letter 29 Cart(h)erius is promoted to the office of Regerendarius (Secretary of the Post-Office), in the hope that this promotion will render him yet more earnest in the discharge of his Praetorian labours.
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

I found myself now and then trenching on the rules by interrupting, etc.; but I contrived to make it up by a respectful 'Your Royal Highness,' 'Your Majesty,' etc.
— from William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

If you feel an itching on the palm of your right hand, you may expect soon to receive some money which you have been long expecting.
— from The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; together with the application and observance of talismen charms, spells and incantations. by A. H. Noe

Neber felt jes right here yet, Miss Edie," said the old man, laying his hand on his breast.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

My good friend,' said the doctor to a pale-looking man on his right hand, 'you must eat three slices more of this roast-beef, or you will never lose your ague.'
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day