Sir : My friends abroad complain that my last letter reached them in small type, most pernicious to English eyes, and half hidden among the rubbish of your editorial remarks, literary notices, and chit-chat with your million butterfly correspondents.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

You will hear the official report of your examination read, and will then be taken back to solitary confinement.
— from The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau

Moreover, we doe give unto you, & any 5. or more of you, power & spetiall com̅and over all y e charters, leters patents, and rescripts royall, of y e regions, provinces, ilands, or lands in foraigne parts, granted for raising colonies, to cause them to be brought before you, & y e same being received, if any thing surrepticiously or unduly have been obtained, or y t by the same priviledges, liberties, & prerogatives hurtfull to us, or to our crowne, or to foraigne princes, have been prejudicially suffered, or granted; the same being better made knowne unto you 5. or more of you, to com̅and them according to y e laws and customs of England to be revoked, and to doe such other things, which to y e profite & safgard of y e afforesaid collonies, and of our subjects residente in y e same, shall be necessary.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

This is all that can be done till y e return of y e Russian Mathematicians sent to make observations and discoveries throughout Siberia."
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 2, May, 1890 by Various

On reading over your excellent review (300/1.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

"On the other hand," went on Venning, with a judicial air, "as you have been sworn in as a member of the clan, you become of course amenable to the laws, and it may be that two wives will not meet the requirements of your exalted rank."
— from In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville

I rather hope they did, since it would mean the chance of a survival elsewhere, though the negative results of your expedition rather lessen that."
— from Later Than You Think by Fritz Leiber

"You have everything in good running order, your enemies routed, the grafters where they belong, a year of steady improvement under the new order of things,—and the public all with you.
— from A Woman for Mayor: A Novel of To-day by Helen M. (Helen Maria) Winslow