Writing to Bernard Barton on March 20, 1826, Lamb says:—"In another thing I talkd of somebody's insipid wife , without a correspondent object in my head: and a good lady, a friend's wife, whom I really love (don't startle, I mean in a licit way) has looked shyly on me ever since.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Fourthly, in this, that the life and the development of society is more independent and longer than the life and the development of every unit which goes to form it, and which is separately born and growing and acting and multiplying and dying while the political body formed of such continues to live one generation after another, developing in mass, in perfection of structure, and in functional activity.
— from What Shall We Do? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“She ain’t Reed’s sister,” she informed me in a low tone, “she’s his girl.”
— from A Tenderfoot Bride: Tales from an Old Ranch by Clarice E. Richards

Sorrow is me, in a lonely sea and a sinful fight I fall, But if there's law o' God or man you'll swing for it yet, Tom Hall!”
— from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling

Although the general tendency of the wind may be rotatory, and is so in many instances, at least for part of the year, yet it is so often counteracted by local circumstances, that the winds are in general very irregular, every disturbance in atmospheric equilibrium from heat or any other cause producing a corresponding wind.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

It was really amusing to observe the cool, comfortable manner, in which she inspected me in a large mirror that hangs opposite to us, as if she had been desirous of seeing how long I could stand my ground and keep my countenance.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

“Will you send it me in a letter?” said Wilfrid, out of patience.
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

Pentaur blushed like a boy, and said, while Paaker and Nefert came nearer to them: “Till to-day life lay before me as if in twilight; but this moment shows it me in another light.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete by Georg Ebers

I have wrote twice to Mr. Harte, to have your picture drawn in miniature, while you were at Venice; and send it me in a letter: it is all one to me whether in enamel or in watercolors, provided it is but very like you.
— from Letters to His Son, 1749 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

For instance, a sheepshank is made in a line to shorten it.
— from Ships at Work by Mary Elting