There had been no occasion for Mr William Jarker to carry out the threat he had once made, for in all the long space of time during which Agnes Hardon’s child was in Mrs Jarker’s care, the money was always paid, faithfully and regularly, once a week, but at how great a cost to its mother none but the Seer of all hearts could tell; and always, in spite of sickness and misery, pain, and the hard bondage of her life, Jarker’s wife was tender and loving to the little one within her charge.
— from Mad: A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn

Carefully I now reviewed my actions, my sentiments, and my purposes, as they had lately appeared to me in the anticipation of a righteous sentence.
— from Discipline by Mary Brunton

All New York men of the old régime, no matter what their individuality may have been twenty years earlier, look so much alike as they approach sixty, and more particularly after they have passed it, that they might be brothers in blood as in caste.
— from Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

With him lived his two beautiful and venerable old sisters, Mrs. Stirling and Mrs. Paterson, and their home of Linlathen contained many noble Italian pictures.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

And Short, shivering discontentedly at the cold, or swearing amid much perspiration at the heat, would smoke his pipe and eat his unattractive pastry, whilst crawling into his rugs and banners, until Beppe, in an outburst of indignation, drags him out by the scruff of the neck and compels him to lock up the forms.
— from A Girl Among the Anarchists by Isabel Meredith

"That was a feasting, for sure A Mystic Palace, and three Houses; one of dominion, one of good fortune, one of pleasure.
— from A Prince of Dreamers by Flora Annie Webster Steel

"Mr. Panther came over and sniffed at Mr. Possum and turned him over with one paw.
— from Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess