If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

He knew what she had done for him, and he felt that no ikon of his hut in the old country had ever seemed more beautiful, or more worthy of his honor.
— from Joyce's Investments: A Story for Girls by Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry

For all that had happened in the world lived and moved upon these panes; time only could have engraved so cunning a masterpiece.
— from Rudy and Babette; Or, The Capture of the Eagle's Nest by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Heineken says, at page 478 of his Idée Générale, that the oldest copy he ever saw was in the Imperial Library at Vienna; and, at page 468, he observes that it appeared to belong to the twelfth century.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

"She said thou wert the only creature had ever spoke her fair," she cried.
— from His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

It is impossible to detect, in any reports of these popular addresses, that he ever stooped to employ a style of speech or mode of argument commonly supposed appropriate to a speaker on the "stump"; and yet he was the greatest "stump" orator that our country has ever seen.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

From the froth of poetry, they rose to a contemplation of the old classics; Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Virgil, rising grandly from their dust, ensphered in vibratory eloquence.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

"Think away," replied the Ox, closing his eyes so as not to see the numerous hands flashing past his nose.
— from Handy Mandy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

[19] See the stage-direction at the end of 'The Trial of Christ', 'Here enteryth Satan into the place in the most orryble wyse, and qwyl ( while ) that he pleyth, thei xal don on Jhesus clothis'.
— from The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne

Neither Hilda nor any of the Orgreave children had ever seen the inside of a Sunday School; and the tendency up at Lane End House was to condescend towards the festival as towards a rejoicing of the proletariat.
— from Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett