If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

you shall lie with her but when she lists; she will not hurt her beauty, her complexion; or it must be for that jewel, or that pearl, when she does: every half hour's pleasure must be bought anew: and with the same pain and charge you woo'd her at first.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

I seized the opportunity of hastening away: and therefore saying, “Heaven, Sir, protect and comfort you!”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

By so pronounced a character, young men in general were not attracted, but there were a few who fell under a sort of spell.
— from The Inside of the Cup — Complete by Winston Churchill

“Fall back,” said Phil, “and consider yourself arrested.”
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

On the north coast, we meet with the Victoria, the Daly, the Adelaide, the Alligator, the Liverpool, the Roper, the Limmen Bight, the Macarthur, the Robinson and the Calvert, the Albert—which is the outlet for the Nicholson and the Gregory—the Leichhardt and the Flinders, the Norman, the Gilbert, the Einesleigh, the Mitchell, the Archer, the Jardine, and the Batavia, which brings us back to our starting point at Cape York.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

It often settles disputes about the date on which something was done; it furnishes data for calculations in planning; i.e. you wish to have an early spring picnic, and, consulting your diary, find that on the 20th of March of the year before you were in the woods without an overcoat and found arbutus; or you wish to get up an entertainment, and turn back in your diary for the description of one you saw during the summer.
— from Elementary Composition by George R. (George Rice) Carpenter

May God bless you with a faithful pastor, one that is well acquainted with his mind and will, thoroughly warning sinners, wisely and skilfully searching professors, and conducting you in the way to eternal blessedness.
— from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards