Here is the offer of an alliance, which would do honour to any family; yours, you will recollect, is not noble; you long resisted my remonstrances, but my honour is now engaged, and it shall not be trifled with.—You shall adhere to the declaration, which you have made me an agent to convey to the Count.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

My DEAR GENERAL: I have just received and read, I need not tell you with how mush gratification, your letter to General Halleck.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Finding that she was still quite overcome and remained silent, trembling, and evidently greatly agitated by the discovery that her secret was known to me, I said to her, "Laura, dearest, you need not be in the least alarmed, your secret is quite safe with me, and nothing shall ever induce me to say a word to anyone regarding it, nor need you fear, my own darling, that I shall take advantage of it to make you do anything you don't like."
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

the current strong; we employed the toe rope principally, and also the pole as the river is not now so deep but reather wider and much more rapid our progress was therefore slow and laborious.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The ram, the sheep, and the lamb will nearly always be found either passant or statant, but a demi-ram is naturally represented in a rampant posture, though in such a case the word "rampant" is not necessary in the blazon.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

the river is now nearly as high as it has been this season and is so thick with mud and sand that it is with difficulty I can drink it.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Only in regard to suppression, this tendency to revert is not necessarily involved, for when a psychic act is held back in the early unconscious stage we also term it suppression in a dynamic sense.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

383/3 "Qui fundum alienum bona fide emit, itinere quod ei fundo debetur usus est: retinetur id ius itineris: atque etiam, si precario aut vi deiecto domino possidet: fundus enim qualiter se habens ita, cum in suo habitu possessus est, ius non deperit, neque refert, iuste nec ne possideat qui talem eum possidet."
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Well,” she replied archly, “a residence is not necessarily a home; it has never been a home to me since my earliest recollection, but it will be one soon, in the truest sense of the word.”
— from The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

On these personal rights I need not dwell.
— from Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas by Walter Sichel

As for what the tree of knowledge was, there really is no need for us to waste our time in guessing.
— from Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley

They make wonderful professions, offers of service, and promises: and, indeed, I have the highest hopes and even greater spirit—so that I hope to get the better in the struggle, and feel confident in my mind that, in the present state of the Republic, I need not fear even an accident.
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The railway is not near where he has gone.”
— from The Weathercock: Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by George Manville Fenn

But the revelation is no new one.
— from Emancipation and Emigration A Plan to Transfer the Freedmen of the South to the Government Lands of the West by The Principia Club by Anonymous

From the secretion with which the leaves are moistened being alkaline, and from its acting both on the starch-granules and on the protoplasmic contents of the cells, we may infer that it resembles in nature not saliva,
— from The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits by Charles Darwin

Rutowski is not now in the Prussian Army: he got beaten, Wednesday last, at Kesselsdorf, fighting against that Army.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

As the proposition in which it is embodied pretends to no other truth than what it may share with many other modes of representing the same facts, to be consistent with the facts is all it requires: it neither needs nor admits of proof; though it may serve to prove other things, inasmuch as, by placing the facts in mental connexion with other facts, not previously seen to resemble them, it assimilates the case to another class of phenomena, concerning which real Inductions have already been made.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

The first large island discovered by Columbus, which still retains its native name of Cuba, was inhabited by Indians of gentle nature, courteous and kind.
— from Spain by Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober