It is useless for him to argue that in allowing his temper to stray he is probably guilty of cruelty, and certainly guilty of injustice to those persons who are forced to witness the loss.
— from The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett

Now, Lolly, I vote we let the prisoners go, when we just introduce them to Mrs. Smith; she's sitting in the carriage, and keeps Mr. S. here in precious good order, I promise you.
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

About the year 1679, he received the appointment of tutor to the Duke of Grafton, one of the natural sons of Charles II.; and subsequently he instructed Prince George of Denmark, consort to Queen Anne, in the English language.
— from Chelsea, in the Olden & Present Times by George Bryan

If in the Oriental view, the particular shakes and is destined to fall, it still has its place grounded on thought.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In the vegetable kingdom every different station has its peculiar group of plants, and similar relations appear to prevail with corals.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

They had cleaned rooms, and made cakes and puddings, and set hens, and stirred jam, and ironed frocks and laces together; they had spent hours in pleasant gossip over the many homely subjects that interested both; their relation had been more that of mother and daughter than of servant and mistress.
— from Sisters by Ada Cambridge

It is the inevitable condition of this school which begins with the present, which begins with the people, which descends to the lowest stage of the contemporary popular belief, and takes in the many-headed monster himself, without any trimming at all, for its audience,—it is the first condition of such a school, conducted by a man of science, that it shall have its proper grades of courts and platforms, its selecter and selectest audiences.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

The air still darkened and darkened, so that by the time we arrived at the suite of picture-rooms the pictures seemed all to be changed to Rembrandts; the shadows as black as midnight, with only some highly illuminated portions gleaming out.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne