You have too meanly, said he, for my wife, stooped to this furious sister of mine; and, till I can recollect, I am not pleased with you:
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The sieges of Mopsuestia and Tarsus, in Cilicia, first exercised the skill and perseverance of their troops, on whom, at this moment, I shall not hesitate to bestow the name of Romans.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

With these reflections I worked my mind up, not only to a resignation to the will of God in the present disposition of my circumstances, but even to a sincere thankfulness for my condition; and that I, who was yet a living man, ought not to complain, seeing I had not the due punishment of my sins; that I enjoyed so many mercies which I had no reason to have expected in that place; that I ought never more to repine at my condition, but to rejoice, and to give daily thanks for that daily bread, which nothing but a crowd of wonders could have brought; that I ought to consider I had been fed even by a miracle, even as great as that of feeding Elijah by ravens, nay, by a long series of miracles; and that I could hardly have named a place in the uninhabitable part of the world where I could have been cast more to my advantage; a place where, as I had no society, which was my affliction on one hand, so I found no ravenous beasts, no furious wolves or tigers, to threaten my life; no venomous creatures, or poisons, which I might feed on to my hurt; no savages to murder and devour me.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

And it is an evident token to us, that God hath some great work for us to do, because he suffers the red dragon to {14} pour out such floods of reproaches upon us ; and that our government is of Divine Original, because it is so much opposed , and that by all sorts of men, and that in contrary ways: some opposing it, because it seeks so much after purity of ordinances ; others, because it seeks it not enough: some, because it layeth claim so much to a jus divinum ; Others, because not enough .
— from A Vindication of the Presbyteriall-Government and Ministry by Ministers and Elders of the London Provinciall Assembly

I went in at the tail end of the little procession, and was consoled to find that Barbara was seated opposite me, and that I could watch her easily during the progress of the meal.
— from Tinman by Tom Gallon

He grumbled, it is said, to Sir Walter Scott of Murdiestone about the inconveniences caused by English raiders; though, as they had a long way to ride, Inglis probably suffered more at Branksome from the Kers, Douglases, and ferocious Turnbulls.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang

"Sorry, old man, about that infernal carter," he said, "but tell you what we'll do.
— from Imperfectly Proper by Peter Donovan

peal—(as she had once heard them do on another occasion)—the troops of friends arrived in greater numbers, and with equal gaiety as they had once assembled to escort her—she saw their equipages gleaming along—she heard the joyous shouts of half the county—she imagined to herself the timid smile of Margaret, and the irradiated countenance of him who had been her bridegroom.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

In the case of the wealthy and those who have face to lose, the matter is generally arranged, to his profit and to the satisfaction of all, by the payment of an adequate sum of money, after the invariable custom of our own mandarincy.
— from The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah

These duties arise from the state of my affairs thrown into confusion by the conduct of parties intent on controlling all my property.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

I did not know then, as I know now, that Mr. Ranson had spoken of me, and that in consequence Captain Hannock was rather alarmed over the prospects should I get ashore.
— from The Last Cruise of the Spitfire; or, Luke Foster's Strange Voyage by Edward Stratemeyer

Spectator , 'You have not spoken in so direct a manner upon the Subject of Marriage as that important Case deserves.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir