Dear Sir, It gives me much pleasure to introduce to you, the bearer of this letter, as my friend Mr. J——, who is to remain a few days in your city on his way to New Orleans.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Only one thing I ask of you in return, and that is that you make no sign, either of condemnation or of approbation of my words until you are safe among your own people, and that whatever sentiments you harbor toward me they be not influenced or colored by gratitude; whatever I may do to serve you will be prompted solely from selfish motives, since it gives me more pleasure to serve you than not."
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

At small informal gatherings, most men consider themselves sufficiently dressed when they wear black frock coats and dark trousers.
— from The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Business by Vanness Copeland

In the Lake XIX The Shipwreck XX The Queer Box Again CHAPTER I SKYROCKET IS GONE “Mother, make Trouble stop!”
— from The Curlytops at Silver Lake; Or, On the Water with Uncle Ben by Howard Roger Garis

When the soil is gone, men must go; and the process does not take long.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

We read in the parody of Coleridge, in "Rejected Addresses": Amid the freaks that modern fashion sanctions, It grieves me much to see live animals Brought on the stage.
— from A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook

Nor was his residence in that city one of peace or ease, for he was troubled by a party favourable to the Queen’s interests, especially by that Archibald Hamilton who afterwards apostatised to the Roman Catholic Church and became his bitter calumniator; and he was placed in opposition to the Regent Morton with respect to the filling up of vacant bishoprics and the disposal of church property, which, far from being applied to the maintenance of religion and the diffusion of education, was still in great measure monopolised by the nobility.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 6 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

I was but myself a country lad, about the youngest in the regiment, but I had heard an officer remark that there was the making of a good soldier in me; and so I gave my mind and heart to the work, and that made me like it.
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

“Shall I get my meals there?”
— from My Friend Smith: A Story of School and City Life by Talbot Baines Reed

Long, long I sat, and sore I grat, my mind full, not so much of my way lost, but of the bigness of things, and the notion of what it would be to have to live in a castle at night, with doors on every hand for ghosts to rap at, and crooked passages without end for gowsty winds to moan in.
— from The Lost Pibroch, and other Sheiling Stories by Neil Munro