“You see, sir,” she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, “I am willing that the child should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you are generous.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But it is a proof of his depth and purity of soul that his searching philosophic intuition did more to spiritualise the dogmas he accepted from others than these dogmas could do to denaturalise his spontaneous philosophy.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This rapid I observed as I passed opposit to it to be verry bad interseped with high rock and Small rockey Islands, here I observed banks of Muscle Shells banked up in the river in Several places, I Delayed at the foot of the rapid about 2 hours for the Canoes which I Could See met with much dificuelty in passing down the rapid on the oposit Side maney places the men were obliged to get into the water and haul the canoes over Sholes—while Setting on a rock wateing for Capt Lewis I Shot a Crain which was flying over of the common kind.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

SYN: Purpose, intend, design, doom, ordain, devote.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“Then,” said the stranger coolly, “he must be some prince in disguise.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

There was something perhaps in Durrance's contention that women so much more than men gather up their experiences and live upon them, looking backwards.
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

“Your Excellency is also acquainted with the disposition manifested in the instructions sent by Rechid Pacha to Chekib Effendi, to arrange this last-mentioned point; and no doubt your Excellency will esteem that to be an evidence from which we may draw the conclusion, that the Sublime Porte is desirous to gratify the wishes of the High Allies of the Sultan, and may be supposed likely to act in the spirit of concession whenever the wishes of those Powers shall have been made known to the Sublime Porte.
— from The War in Syria, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Napier

But all de time dey wuz jowerin’ an’ confabbin’, ol’ Brer Rabbit wus settin’ in a shady place in de grass, a-hearin’ eve’y word dey say.
— from Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris

Custom gives the Provost and his lady a place of honor in the alcove behind the music; here is a petty court where the civic spirit pays its devoirs, where the lockets are large and strong, and hair-chains much abound, and mouths before the mellowing midnight hour are apt to be a little mim.
— from Bud: A Novel by Neil Munro

Send away the fly, Mr. Shubrick, please!" "I do not think I can.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

This is the first rebellion which has existed in our Territories, and humanity itself requires that we should put it down in such a manner that it shall be the last.
— from State of the Union Addresses by James Buchanan

"Well," said Uncle Dan, scowling perplexedly; "I don't quite make him out.
— from A Venetian June by Anna Fuller