So that our Readers may still be as unlike the Presbyterians as they please.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“On rising,” says the official report, “Mr. Sumner was received with great cheering,—the members of the Society standing, waving handkerchiefs, and in other ways expressing lively satisfaction.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

For instance, Mr. Silas Tredway of Ripton, made such a pilgrimage and, as a citizen who had voted in 1860 for Abraham Lincoln (showing Mr. Tredway himself to have been a radical once), appealed to Mr. Henderson to save the State.
— from Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 3 by Winston Churchill

When Rosie saw the old Roman motto she said, "I hold, and am held.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

Do not be harsh with them, show them our royal mercy, shove them gently through the gates of Hell, cutting them with saws and with harrows of iron and with axes, emulating the clemency of our royal father, the bandit chief.
— from King Solomon's Goat by George Willard Bartlett

We don't win it to kill any more of them than is absolutely necessary," said the overseer rather more seriously than usual.
— from Brother Against Brother; Or, The War on the Border by Oliver Optic

Then the name of the gentleman who played Romeo appeared in letters two sizes smaller than those of the star, and lower down, in quite small type, one read: "Mr. Stewart Thrall as Mercutio."
— from A Pasteboard Crown: A Story of the New York Stage by Clara Morris

They say that Otto Radowitz made such an amusing speech last week in the college debating society attacking 'the bloods.'
— from Lady Connie by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

As the Yankee rounded to under the stern of the stranger and dropped anchor in such a position as to bring her broadside battery to bear should the occasion require, Mainwaring set his glass to his eye to read the name he could distinguish beneath the overhang of her stern.
— from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main by Howard Pyle