In these he himself is described as a man who wrote and transacted business, and it appears that his household then consisted of his wife, the natural daughter Isabel de Saavedra already mentioned, his sister Andrea, now a widow, her daughter Constanza, a mysterious Magdalena de Sotomayor calling herself his sister, for whom his biographers cannot account, and a servant-maid.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They do singularly dote on such a man, hate such again, and can give no reason for it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

that, they were such as Moses himself should appoint for Elders and Officers of the People: For the words are, "Gather unto me seventy men, whom thou knowest to be Elders and Officers of the people:" where, "thou knowest," is the same with "thou appointest," or "hast appointed to be such."
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Indeed, where young ladies bring great fortunes themselves, they have some right to insist on spending what is their own; and on that account I have heard the gentlemen say, a man has sometimes a better bargain with a poor wife, than with a rich one.——But let my daughters marry whom they will, I shall endeavour to make them blessings to their husbands:——I beg, therefore, I may hear of no more masquerades.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

When the winter season had passed and the first fine days of the early spring appeared, Mrs. Hale secured a buggy for an afternoon and invited Carrie.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

In the courtyard, which was surrounded by a wall of rubble-stone, there stood another miserable hovel, smaller and older than the first and all askew.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

This fray being with difficulty suppressed, by the intervention of our own footman and the cook-maid of the house, the squire had just opened his mouth, to expostulate with Tabby, when the town-waits, in the passage below, struck up their music (if music it may be called) with such a sudden burst of sound, as made him start and stare, with marks of indignation and disquiet.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

monē or monētō , advise , thou shalt advise monēte or monētōte , advise , you shall advise monētō , he shall advise monentō , they shall advise NOUNS OF THE VERB.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

He went out on the bridge as far as it was completed from the south end, and saw Sherman superintending the work from the north side and moving himself south as fast as an additional boat was put in and the roadway put upon it.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

One stands aghast, marvelling how such a colossus of a man, in such a great commotion of spirit, can open his mouth so much and emit such a still small voice at the hinder end of it all.
— from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Tolls did so, and, missing him, stood and received Brashear's ball through both thighs, and fell.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks

His manner, on this occasion, was so kind towards me, and the anxiety he showed about my health so affectionate, that all my fears of his misinterpreting my feelings vanished; and to me the result of all that had passed was a firmer conviction, than I had ever yet felt, of his regard.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

Nowadays, the slide must be so arranged as to secure a much higher speed, and to give awkward turnings which need cool courage to negotiate.
— from Switzerland by Frank Fox

If it were, a Tippa Malku husband, "specialising" (as Mr. Howitt says) a woman to himself, would need to ask the leave of his fellows, who are Noa to his intended fiancée .
— from The Secret of the Totem by Andrew Lang

All the influences around him, both on ship and on shore, were such as might have seduced a weaker man from his loyalty.
— from The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

And as the building progressed, Mr. Scobell's active mind had soared above the original idea of domestic coziness to far greater heights of ingenuity.
— from The Prince and Betty by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

That change, however, was never made, although Mrs. Stubbs and Minnie had seen and set their hearts upon a mansion in Earl's Court at a modest rental of five hundred a year, which they thought quite a reasonable rent--for one awful night the senior clerk came tearing up to the door in a cab, with the horse all in a lather and his own face like chalk, and asked for the master.
— from Princess Sarah, and Other Stories by John Strange Winter