At a picnic my boyhood training reaches its full fruition: "Eat what is set before you and ask no questions."
— from Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson

This handsome series of Mr. James’s Works has been carefully revised by the Author; and is “got up in that superior style, and agreeable size of type, which renders it fit for every age and every library.”
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

Then the Judge fairly bellowed, as he got slowly to his feet: “I tell you once for all, the whole damned lot of you,” he shouted, “that every man, woman and child in Brookville has been paid, compensated, remunerated and requited in full for every cent he, she or it lost in the Andrew Bolton bank failure.”
— from An Alabaster Box by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Lamb, grateful for the generous liquid, drank heartily, but not ostentatiously, and returned the pot of beer to Munden, who had waited to remove it from fastidious eyes.
— from Charles Lamb: A Memoir by Barry Cornwall

When James II. took refuge in France from England, Madame de Cornuel went to Saint-Germain to see him.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

On their presenting themselves before him, he found, more to his vexation than surprize, (for he now expected the worst) that all of them, even to those who had supplied his kitchen, had bills of a long standing: he discharged all their several demands directly; and, having taken a receipt in full from each of them, desired they would henceforth suffer no goods to be left within his doors without the value being paid on the delivery.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

Why should not emancipated Russia issue forth from Europe and subjugate Asia?
— from The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. by Alexander Michie

For no one whom Rudolph Musgrave had ever encountered in the flesh had been really and profoundly wicked, Rudolph Musgrave considered; and so, he always gravely estimated this-or-that acquaintance, after death, to be "better off, poor fellow"—as the colonel phrased it, with a tinge of self-contradiction—even if he actually refrained in fancy from endowing the deceased with aureate harps and crowns and footgear.
— from The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell