Well, I do like that, Mas’ Don, after saving us both as I did.”
— from The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens by George Manville Fenn

If any part of it (say a human soul) descends, it acts against its nature in doing so, urged by an inconsiderate desire of the intelligence, a perfidious love for matter which causes it to descend, to know what passes here below, where good and evil are in conflict.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

The graduation is somewhat unusual, beginning as it does with 0 degrees at either pole and marked by tens on the right half of the circle through 90 degrees or to the equator, and with 90 degrees at either pole and marked by tens on the left to 0 degrees at the equator.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

The term still used by auctioneers in describing a modern extending table as "a set of dining tables," is, probably, a survival of the older method of providing for a dinner party.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield

I think we have a piece of old stuff sent us by an Italian dealer that will suit that exactly."
— from The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick

'I should not have approved of it,' said uncle Bryan, 'and I do not approve of any person seeing you home in a clandestine way.'
— from Jessie Trim by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Therefore, he suspects us both and is determined to put an end to your inquisitiveness."
— from The Place of Dragons: A Mystery by William Le Queux