It was just the thing for him; he used for to rush out and snap at any big dog that might be passing, and when the big dogs turned round upon him, the impudent little joker would dart through the hole, and further insult the others by barking at them, knowing very well that they could not follow him; so the big dogs used to trot off, vowing all sorts of vengeance, if ever they got him within reach of their jaws.
— from The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

January 10, 1870, the Senate proceeded to the consideration of a Joint Resolution reported from the Committee on the Judiciary, declaring, “That the State of Virginia is entitled to representation in the Congress of the United States,”—she having, as was said, “complied in all respects with the Reconstruction Acts.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The fourth class consists of those widows with families upon whom the officer, after a series of visits, is enabled to report facts which must satisfy the guardians that she is industrious, temperate, and of strict probity.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

According to the last national census, the state of Virginia is entitled to ten members in the United States House of Representatives, based upon its [216] population in proportion to the other states.
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

As whole groups of specimens often vary in exactly the same manner, it is not easy to exaggerate the difficulty of discriminating species and varieties.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

Through the quarter to which all that is disreputable in Europe drifts, where any sort of virtue is exposed to damage beyond repair, she had carried her respectability and emerged more respectable than ever.
— from Our House and London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

To suppose "as many words as we hear accents," or that "it is the laying of an accent on one syllable, which constitutes a word ," and then say, that "no unaccented syllable or vowel is ever to be accounted long," as this enthusiastic author does in fact, is to make strange scansion of a very large portion of the trissyllables and polysyllables which occur in verse.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

It is, indeed, easy to show that in a polished community a certain low standard of virtue is essential to prosperity, to paint the evils of unrestrained passions, and to prove that it is better to obey than to violate the laws of society.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky