By all that is sacred, by all that is most dear to you, I supplicate, I entreat....' 'Release me!
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

It was such defects as these that the hostile critic 83 Caecilius made his ground of attack, when he had the boldness in his essay “On the Beauties of Lysias” to pronounce that writer superior in every respect to Plato.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

As the law requires that the parties should be some weeks resident in the parish, we shall stay here till the ceremony is performed.—Mr Lismahago requests that he may take the benefit of the same occasion; so that next Sunday the banns will be published for all four together.—I doubt I shall not be able to pass my Christmas with you at Brambleton-hall.—Indeed, I am so agreeably situated in this place, that I have no desire to shift my quarters; and I foresee, that when the day of separation comes, there will be abundance of sorrow on all sides.—In the mean time, we must make the most of those blessings which Heaven bestows.—Considering how you are tethered by your profession, I cannot hope to see you so far from home; yet the distance does not exceed a summer-day’s journey, and Charles Dennison, who desires to be remembered to you, would be rejoiced to see his old compotator; but as I am now stationary, I expect regular answers to the epistles of Yours invariably, MATT.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

This Great Nation who the French has given the nickname of Sciouex, Call them selves Dar co tar their language is not peculiarly their own, they Speak a great number of words, which is the Same in every respect with the Maha, Poncaser, Osarge & Kanzies.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

SOCRATES: That is, he lives worst who commits the greatest crimes, and who, being the most unjust of men, succeeds in escaping rebuke or correction or punishment; and this, as you say, has been accomplished by Archelaus and other tyrants and rhetoricians and potentates?
— from Gorgias by Plato

What can be more similar in every respect and in every part more alike to my hand and to my ear, than their images in a mirror?
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Three or four years would make me a sailor in every respect, mind and habits, as well as body—nolens volens; and would put all my companions so far ahead of me that college and a profession would be in vain to think of; and I made up my mind that, feel as I might, a sailor I must be, and to be master of a vessel, must be the height of my ambition.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The Americans (as those from the United States are called) and Englishmen, who are fast filling up the principal towns, and getting the trade into their hands, are indeed more industrious and effective than the Spaniards; yet their children are brought up Spaniards, in every respect, and if the "California fever" (laziness) spares the first generation, it always attacks the second.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The habits of both species are similar in every respect.
— from Birds of the Plains by Douglas Dewar

zu Saxsen vnd lantgrau en zu Hessen sampt ir en relionszvorwant en ainzulassen szo vormirck doch ir e ko nigliche m a
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

Once in a while there is grown a heart so spacious that Nature finds in it room to chant aloud the word God , and set its echoes rolling billowy through one man's being; and he, lifting up his voice to repeat it among men from that inward hearing, invariably astounds, and it may be infuriates his contemporaries.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Nucleated planetary nebula, showing its external ring split and held apart, in part of its circumference, by electrical repulsion 288 Fig.
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

The passenger who had suffered most from sea-sickness—a poor tired-looking woman, mother of too many children—ceased to retch and groan and sank into exhausted repose.
— from The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Johnston

French soldiers in English red coats and carrying British flags were straggling along the roads to join the battalion at the volunteers’ camp three miles from the town, and singing: “Brigadier, respondez Pandore— Brigadier, vous avez raison.”
— from The Right of Way — Complete by Gilbert Parker

Frances seldom if ever rode from home without wire cutters and staples in a pocket of her saddle.
— from Frances of the Ranges; Or, The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe

A chill came over him as he crossed his arms, facing Them; and that one little word held many meanings—a last farewell—some obscure challenge, some irrevocable evil resolution to fight everyone, even his own comrades—a little, a very little, sense of reproach.
— from The Dark by Leonid Andreyev

Before that time and meeting it had other significations not so august; but while these have fallen away, the other and chief signification in English remains.
— from Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations by William Elliot Griffis

There are neither houses nor ships, such as you talk about, and you are sillier than any fairy story I ever read.”
— from The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond