They asked that husband and wife should be tenants in common of property, but with a partition upon the death of one; that a wife should be competent to discharge trusts and powers, the same as a single woman; that the statute in respect to married women's property should be made effectual, and the wife's property descend as though she had been unmarried; that married women should be entitled to execute letters testamentary and of administration; that they should have power to make contracts and transact business; that they should be entitled to their own earnings, subject to their proportionate liability for support of children; that post nuptial acquisitions should belong equally to husband and wife; that married women should stand on the same footing with single as parties or witnesses in legal proceedings; that they should be equal guardians of their minor children; that the homestead should be inviolable and inalienable for widows and their children; that laws in relation to divorce should be revised, and habitual drunkenness be made cause of absolute divorce; that the preference of males in descent of real estate should be abolished; that women should exercise the right of suffrage, be eligible to all offices, occupations and professions, entitled to act as jurors, eligible to employment in public offices; that a law should be passed extending the masculine designation in all statutes to females.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

at the distance of four miles he arrived at the river and the rocks were here so steep and juted into the river such manner that there was no other alternative but passing through the river, this he attempted with success tho water was so deep for a short distance as to swim the horses and was very rapid; he continued his rout one mile along the edge of the river under this steep Clift to a little bottom, below which the whole current of the river beat against the Stard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

There was bitterness to him in the perception that Maggie was almost as frank and unconstrained toward him as when she was a child.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Our host told us how to find our way to the house and we set off, but lost our way in the woods.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And then was Sir Gawaine ware how there hung a white shield on that tree, and ever as the damosels came by it they spit upon it, and some threw mire upon the shield.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

When she perceived she had made the impression she desired, she became more moderate in her caresses, but not in her vivacity, and when she thought proper to explain to us the real or false cause of all her petulance, she said I resembled M. de Bremond, director of the customs of Tuscany, to such a degree as to be mistaken for him; that she had turned this M. de Bremond’s head, and would do it again; that she had quitted him because he was a fool; that she took me in his place; that she would love me because it pleased her so to do, for which reason I must love her as long as it was agreeable to her, and when she thought proper to send me about my business, I must be patient as her dear Bremond had been.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I thought from his expression that the count had taken a fancy to her, and when she asked us to dinner I refused on the plea of an engagement; but Tiretta, who took my meaning, accepted.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Beth nestled up to her, and whispered softly, "I wish I could send my bunch to father.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

The inscription “peace to his ashes” which so often is found, in black or golden letters, on the tombstones 186 of the present time, preaches incineration in our burial-grounds.
— from The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

And with this astonishing admission, John Hunter finished haying the horses and walked slowly to the house, thinking about the new horses, and half prepared to admit that he had made a mistake in buying them outright from a man who was able to get away before they could be proven, but Elizabeth and Hugh were already sitting by the table in the living room and he knew he was wanted.
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger

Pardieu, though,' he added, with something like a laugh; 'the old love and conscience together don't provide very good quarters.
— from The Prophet's Mantle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

I showed Lillian that world altogether new to her, and when she was delighted with its beauties, I felt proud that that kingdom of mine was so pleasing to her.
— from Lillian Morris, and Other Stories by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Mr. Murray looked and smiled, and did not at once speak; then he asked what subject came first.
— from Pine Needles by Susan Warner

When they shall see, as they [360] will see, that nothing is done there, they will let go their hold, and we shall have peace on the status ante bellum .
— from The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled From Family Letters and Reminiscences by Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas) Randolph

The vibration of the hot air was sufficient excuse for bad shooting, and it was not until he had emptied his magazine that he had the satisfaction of sending the leading Bushman sprawling.
— from A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari And Other Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Carruthers Cornell

This heathen altar was set up on Kisleu (December) 15, and the heathen sacrifice began on Kisleu 25.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

The men retraced their steps, leading their horses, and when scarcely halfway from the creek to the dug-out, Dell ran down to meet them.
— from Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

There was the fox-hunter who in the time not devoted to sport was always “welcome to the cottager’s wife at that hour in the afternoon when she had made herself tidy, swept up the hearth, and was sitting down before the fire with the stockings of the family before her.
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton