[100] enough to listen to two successive sentences, the young lady explained to her father the situation in which she had been placed by the sudden decease of her uncle, and spoke of the kindness which she had experienced from the Earl and Countess of Smatterton, adding, that they had been so kind as to propose giving her the opportunity of meeting her father in London.
— from Penelope: or, Love's Labour Lost, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

He called the new gorge now before him, really only a continuation of the one ending with the canyon of the Little Colorado, the "Great Unknown," and a party some twenty years later, emulating the early Spaniards in the art of forgetting, called it the same, but it was the Great Unknown only once, and that was when Powell on this occasion first faced the sublime, unfathomed depths that here lay in his course.
— from The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

She did succeed in burning the larger part of the covers, and only by accident, or rather by reason of her haste, was, as I shall tell you, lucky enough to leave unburned a bit of the outer cover.
— from A Diplomatic Adventure by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

"I should tell you, Lady Eustace, that I had not a doubt about this before I came here.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

If ye can but say, that ye long earnestly to be carried up thither (and I hope you cannot for shame deny Him the honour of having wrought that desire in your soul), then hath your Lord given you an earnest.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

With quick interest, partly in that it was one of the first cases in which his legal wisdom had been consulted, and partly from the kindly feeling of neighborship, which is so warm in Scotland, the young lawyer embraced the search, and promised to go down instantly to the parish in which the deed was done, or even to engage the assistance of an acute writer, of experience in his craft, if Lewis thought that desirable.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

When he saw the young lady entering the shop, Cotsdean's spirits rose a little, for a new customer was pleasant, and though he thought he had seen her, he did not know who she was.
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

A little nearer, please—just a little, so that your left elbow touches her ladyship's right.
— from Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew

So that , your love elsewhere , These songs , or bad or good — How should they ever have been ?
— from Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley