For many years past he had been attended by a physician, named Templeton—an old gentleman, perhaps seventy years of age—whom he had first encountered at Saratoga, and from whose attention, while there, he either received, or fancied that he received, great benefit.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Though but a child at the time, he either remembered or fancied that Matthew's father had had some job to perform on the day before, or possibly the very morning of the Colonel's decease, in the private room where he and the carpenter were at this moment talking.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The best way of managing negroes, according to my experience, was to treat them kindly when they done well, and to punish them reasonably when they misbehaved; but that he might be assured that no negroes would conduct themselves well who were left too much to themselves—that someone for whom they had either respect or fear should always be near at hand.
— from The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory by Stanley F. Horn

Their hearts either rise or fall according to their praise or enlargement.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

The water did not appear to have either risen or fallen during the day; but all the trees which would have best answered our purposes were now several feet in the water.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley

These hills, exclamatory remarks of fellow passengers soon enlighten one, are “Les Demoiselles”.
— from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward

So thou seest, dear little mother, that not only thine and mine own inclinations, but also mine obligation given unto God, bindeth me to bestow upon the boy all the teaching I can give unto him, and to afford to him every reasonable opportunity for greater learning.
— from Arius the Libyan: A Romance of the Primitive Church by Nathan C. (Nathan Chapman) Kouns

He had taken many little strolls with her to this or that pretty point of view, they had exchanged reminiscences of foreign travel, and had dipped a little into current popular books, so that they had come to be on easy, friendly terms.
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner

Then her eye roved over Frosses again.
— from The Rat-Pit by Patrick MacGill

It is well to have each roll of films put up separately in a sealed, water-tight tin.
— from Packing and Portaging by Dillon Wallace

It has all his characteristic merits and demerits—among the latter, his interminable prolixity, the thinness of the thought, his endless repetition of favorite words and phrases, many of them from his other poems, his mispronunciation, his occasional flashes of prose, and so forth.
— from The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce