But I shall be reminded here, that, when the apostles were disseminating Christianity in the Roman empire, there prevailed throughout that empire a system of slavery more odious and oppressive than ours; and yet that both slaveholders and slaves were converted and admitted to the church, without its affecting the relation of master and slave; that the New Testament instructs the parties how to demean themselves in that relation, but nowhere enjoins emancipation on the master, or encourages absconding or non-submission in the slave; in short, that it nowhere expressly condemns slavery, or intimates that its extermination was to be expected or desired.
— from Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by R. B. (Richard Bowers) Thurston

Sometimes in summer there is not enough water to enable them to [ 198 ] travel, and often a good bump is experienced from some hidden rock.
— from The Life of the Moselle From its source in the Vosges Mountains to its junction with the Rhine at Coblence by Octavius Rooke

"I am sure," I said, "that I now express Lady Hartmore's sentiments as well as my own, when I demand that this inquest be adjourned until a post-mortem examination has been made on the body of the dead man.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 40, April, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

The minister smiled at her determination, and said, ‘I suppose there is nothing else for me but also to obey.
— from The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy by John Galt