She was returned to Mansfield Park, she was useful, she was beloved; she was safe from Mr. Crawford; and when Sir Thomas came back she had every proof that could be given in his then melancholy state of spirits, of his perfect approbation and increased regard; and happy as all this must make her, she would still have been happy without any of it, for Edmund was no longer the dupe of Miss Crawford.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

But imagine the population of London falling, and falling rapidly; the migrating people establishing themselves where rents are extremely low, and where their work is within easy-walking distance of their homes!
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

The Roman theology, more positive and precise, adopted the term most offensive to the ears of the Egyptians, that Christ existed In two natures; and this momentous particle (which the memory, rather than the understanding, must retain) had almost produced a schism among the Catholic bishops.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

We were being swept westward, and I estimate that our comparatively moderate speed reached twelve miles per hour.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

. Preserve my heart and my body undefiled, that with a joyful and pure conscience I may be able very often to [celebrate, and](2) receive to my perpetual health.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

The Second stage relates to material prosperity, wealth, produce, labor-saving machines, iron, cotton, local, State and continental railways, intercommunication and trade with all lands, steamships, mining, general employment, organization of great cities, cheap appliances for comfort, numberless technical schools, books, newspapers, a currency for money circulation, &c.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Should this expectation be foolish and destined to prove false, it would have no value, and be indeed the more ludicrous and repulsive the more pleasure its dupe took in it, and the longer his illusion lasted.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

It being nearly seven o'clock, he was as eager to hold a morning gossip as a city shopkeeper to read the morning paper.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Doctor still remains to me: probus , doctus , lepidus , jucundus : a man of books.”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Such slight mistakes as these in the decoration of a comb may render the magic pattern of no avail against the appropriate disease.
— from Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon

So I listen and my companion listens; and Brigham Young talks on; and I do declare and acknowledge that we are fast drifting into a hazy mental condition by virtue of which we begin to regard the Mormon President as a victim of cruel persecution, a suffering martyr and an injured angel!
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

I was about to go regularly through my patients when the old gentleman began to speak.
— from The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

Comus The "Masque of Comus" is in many respects the most perfect of Milton's poems.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

When it comes to the spelling part of the rhyme, the miller points to a child, who must call out the right letter.
— from My Book of Indoor Games by Clarence Squareman

As we have seen, the British Government encourages poppy production, even to the extent of lending money without interest to all those who are willing to raise this most profitable crop.
— from The Opium Monopoly by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

A VALUABLE DIAMOND NECKLACE LOST—THE GREAT MYSTERY—HISTORIC CHARACTER OF THE NECKLACE—THOROUGH SEARCHING—THE SHREWDEST SCAMPS GENERALLY HAVE BETTER REPUTATION THAN MOST PEOPLE—TOO GOOD A "CHARACTER" A MATTER OF SUSPICION—"MR.
— from Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives by George S. McWatters

He took his stand beside the snow-white hart, and cried in that angry voice we have all heard, These crowns grow only to the glory of the Proud Rosalind, the most peerless daughter of Sussex, and no woman
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon