The animal food, sir, and the fermented liquors of various kinds, Foreign and British, which to our certain knowledge you have swallowed within the last twelve months, would have sufficed for fifty families in our abstemious region of mist and snow.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

'My son,' said the old chief kindly, 'you may comfort yourself with the thought that your august father is doing what he finds best in the circumstances.
— from A Trip to Mars by Frank Aubrey

Bannelong told the governor, that the Cammeragals had killed his friend , or relation , for we are not clear that these words in their language, which had been supposed to mean Father or Brother, are made use of by the natives in that sense: he said, they had burnt his body, which he seemed to lament; and being told, that Governor Phillip would take the soldiers and punish them, he prest him very much to go and kill them: indeed, from the first day he was able to make himself understood, he was desirous to have all the tribe of Cammeragal killed, yet he was along with that tribe when Governor Phillip was wounded, and, as hath already been observed, was seen with them since the loss of his friend, or brother.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

Let the thought of Christ keep you always humble: and yet let it lift you up to the highest, noblest, purest thoughts which man can have, as it will.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

"And when you are tired of Castle Kernsberg you
— from Joan of the Sword Hand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

and let me alone for that old Cuckoldly Knave your father, I'll use him in his kind, I warrant ye. Wife.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10 by John Fletcher

We came then to the said town, Nich, whose cacique is called Ahtul, and this little town is the chief town of Cha Kan Ytza, which consists of other very small towns, but of many settlements, and each of these possesses a cacique or captain, although all the Cha Kan Ytzaes, with their wives and children, as far as I saw, will be about six hundred souls, more or less."
— from History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Philip Ainsworth Means