On the other hand, a real well-bred man will wish to be useful, and there are certain people whom it is imperative on him to ask to dance—the daughters of the house, for instance, and any young ladies whom he may know intimately; but most of all the well-bred and amiable man will sacrifice himself to those plain, ill-dressed, dull looking beings who cling to the wall, unsought and despairing.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

They are called Pyramids, and are older than a stork could imagine; and in that country, there is a river that overflows its banks, and then goes back, leaving nothing but mire; there we can walk about, and eat frogs in abundance.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

A schooner, the Governor Hunter , belonging to Joseph Kendrick, was caught in the harbour and destroyed; but as we have understood, the American commander paid a sum of money to the owner by way of compensation.—At the taking of York, Captain Sanders, whom we have seen in command of the Bella Gore , was killed.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

“Both them ar chaps parsons?” said John to one of the men, as they were going out.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“What,” said he, “should be done to a certain person who has deceived everyone?”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

They have gone to a christening party at the house of that old officer who rides on a little grey horse.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When the judges of this awful contest proceeded to examine the heart, and to scrutinize the springs of action, the superiority of the Imperial Stoic appeared still more decisive and conspicuous.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

An epistle in praise of tobacco and coffee, prefixed to a little treatise entitled Organum Salutis.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Whatever occasional anomalies may be detected, anomalies which no doubt arise out of our own ignorance of the language of the Homeric age, however the irregular use of the digamma may have perplexed our Bentleys, to whom the name of Helen is said to have caused as much disquiet and distress as the fair one herself among the heroes of her age, however Mr. Knight may have failed in reducing the Homeric language to its primitive form; however, finally, the Attic dialect may not have assumed all its more marked and distinguishing characteristics—still it is difficult to suppose that the language, particularly in the joinings and transitions, and connecting parts, should not more clearly betray the incongruity between the more ancient and modern forms of expression.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Suddenly, she was found behind the bar of Weir's Tavern at Cedar Point, the resort most frequented by Jacques.
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5. by Gilbert Parker

But the Senate is in fact, of course, nothing more than a part, though a considerable part, of the public service, and if the general conditions of that service be such as to starve statesmen and foster demagogues, the Senate itself will be full of the latter kind, simply because there are no others available.
— from Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

[Pg 29] Was it likely that a child put thus into the harness of life, would pass the talk of her aunt with Mr. Mohun as the idle wind?
— from The Cockaynes in Paris; Or, 'Gone abroad' by Blanchard Jerrold

Type 2 ( c ) in Wales is remarkable for governmental ability of the administrative kind as well as for independence of thought and critical power" (p. 119).
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

To understand the abnormal conditions prevailing in France, we must remember that France is in revolution since a century or more.
— from The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906 by J. Napier (Jane Napier) Brodhead

For our human thinking, assuredly, there are certain prerequisites, that the world may be at all a sphere for moral training and action.
— from Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King

This intensity is not only shown by the brilliancy of the spark and the strength of the shock, but also by the necessity which has been experienced of well-insulating the convolutions of the helix, in which the current is formed: and it gives to the current a force at these moments very far above that which the apparatus could produce if the principle which forms the subject of this paper were not called into play.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

It was only by degrees, as I went about the world, that I noted how quick and strong would beat the answering conversational pulse at the mention of a garden, at the sighing reference to the arrangement of a herbaceous border.
— from Some Irish Yesterdays by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

So, too, when the Confederate Government purchased in Great Britain, as a neutral country (with strict observance both of the law of nations and the municipal law of Great Britain), vessels which were subsequently armed and commissioned as vessels of war after they had been far removed from English waters, the British Government, in violation of its own laws, and in deference to the importunate demands of the United States, made an ineffectual attempt to seize one vessel, and did actually seize and detain another which touched at the Island of Nassau, on her way to a Confederate port, and subjected her to all unfounded prosecution, at the very time when cargoes of munitions of war were openly shipped from British ports to New York, to be used in warfare against us.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis