If it will satisfy you, I will receive the sacrament upon it never to see his face again.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"The second ring," she said unconstrainedly, "is not the sign of a second marriage.
— from The Dead Lake, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

They started away on a slow lope, but generally stopped and sat up if not too seriously alarmed.
— from The Killer by Stewart Edward White

She understood, is nominative to soiled , in the first example; and the substantive part of mine , after than, is nom.
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham

Unless this is done the scale used is not the Stanford Revision, whatever else it may be.
— from Condensed Guide for the Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Tests by Lewis M. (Lewis Madison) Terman