“Well, I am glad to hear you speak as you do,” she said, with a smile; “and now, to reward your constancy to him, I tell you that whenever they're settled, or, at all events, out of their troubles, if you think me worth your while, I won't have any objection to become your wife; and—there—what are you about, Fergus?
— from Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

If at table, let it be high; raised up nearly to the armpits, so as not to require you to stoop; you will find the employment much easier—not one half so fatiguing; whilst the form of the chest and symmetry of the figure will remain perfect.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

So said a note that reached Yan away in the east where he had been chafing in a new and distasteful life.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, August 1899 by Various

I am too proud, and happily am independent by my own exertions, so as not to require your assistance.
— from Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

My dear Terry ,—I should be very sorry if you thought the interest I take in you and yours so slight as not to render your last letter extremely interesting.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

"You trifle with me Franklin," rejoined his companion; "if you betake yourself to rash acts and dangerous enterprises, as your words admit----" "I may be moved," said Franklin Gray, again interrupting him, "by a thousand other causes than the need of money; the love of activity, the restlessness of my nature, habits of danger and enterprise--" "And is not the love of such a being as you have spoken of," demanded his companion, "is it not sufficient to calm down such a nature, to restrain you from all that may hurt or injure her?
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

'And should you find that he has forgotten you, so as not to recognize your person and countenance, do you think he would be in danger on that account of losing your favor?'
— from Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou

So said a note that reached Yan away in the East, where he had been chafing in a new and distasteful life.
— from The Trail of the Sandhill Stag by Ernest Thompson Seton

simply so as not to refuse you.
— from A Romance of Youth — Complete by François Coppée