But he voted for advance, and at any rate I could make a trial and report upon my personal sensations before his turn arrived.
— from Among the Canadian Alps by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

"I was, besides, and had been for some time engaged in the task of unthreading the labyrinth by which I had reached, unawares, my present state of slavery to opium.
— from The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day

“You may rely upon my prudence, sir,” said Gieeson.
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever

He refers humorously to the Yankees as "an ingenious people who out-bargain them in the market, out-speculate them on the exchange, out-top them in fortune, and run up mushroom palaces so high that the tallest Dutch family mansion has not wind enough left for its weather-cock."
— from The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

Self-love, which, never rightly understood, Makes poets still conclude their plays are good, And malice in all critics reigns so high, That for small errors, they whole plays decry; So that to see this fondness, and that spite, You'd think that none but madmen judge or write, Therefore our poet, as he thinks not fit To impose upon you what he writes for wit; So hopes, that, leaving you your censures free, You equal judges of the whole will be: 10 They judge but half, who only faults will see.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden