It will be sufficient for me to say in this place, that she was not herself conscious of the means adopted to remove her from the inhabited to the uninhabited part of the house.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

[13] Let us attempt then to re-state the idea that the ultimate power in the tragic world is a moral order.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

wound implies an injury to the skin in addition to injury to the underlying parts to a lesser or greater extent.
— from The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

Colonel Sibthorp presents his compliments to his dear friend and fellow, PUNCH, and seeing in the Times of Wednesday last a long account of the extraordinary arithmetical powers of a new calculating machine, invented by Mr. Wertheimber, he is desirous of asking the inventor, through the ubiquitous pages of PUNCH, whether his, Mr. W.’s apparatus—which, as his friend George Robins would say, is a lot which seems to be worthy only of the great Bidder—(he thinks he had him there)—whether this automatical American, or steam calculator, could solve for him the following queries:— If the House of Commons be divided by Colonel Sibthorp on the Corn Laws, how much will it add to his credit?
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

I kissed its little tiny hand, And tried its tale to understand, [Pg 55] When o'er each limb a trembling spread, A giddiness attacked my head, My brain was growing wild.
— from The Anglican Friar, and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook A Comic Legend by active 19th century Novice

The text, I think, tells us plainly enough.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

[a]ppere I shall therefore requyre yo ur lordeship that insuing the teano ur p ur port and effecte of the king es saide g ra unte
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

Alexander Pope Transcriber's Note: Greek words that may not display correctly in all browsers are transliterated in the text using popups like this: βιβλος .
— from Alexander Pope by Leslie Stephen

Now was the moment to cheer and encourage him; to reassure him as to his own undiminished powers and popularity, for he talked dejectedly of himself as obsolete and passing out of fashion; to convince him also of the impossibility that the ungrateful publisher whom Savarin’s more brilliant successes had enriched could encounter the odium of hostile proceedings; and to remind him of all the authors, all the artists, whom he in their earlier difficulties had so liberally assisted, and from whom a sum sufficing to pay the bourgeois creditor when the day arrived could now be honourably asked and would be readily contributed.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

[Pg 332] though in society so many of the fair sparkle and overflow with quick and graceful raillery, we find that when they come to impress their thoughts upon paper they are invariably sentimental.
— from History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange