Always ready to oblige me, she sat down directly and wrote the duke a letter, telling me to deliver it myself since my personal description was necessary.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

An ordinary compound sentence (as we have seen in § 44 ) is made by joining two or more simple sentences, each of which thus becomes an independent coördinate clause .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

The old man stood speechless, and as if petrified.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Thus we naturally feel ill-will to a rival who deprives us of an object of competition: and so in persons in whom the desire of superiority is strong, a certain dislike of any one who is more successful or prosperous than themselves is easily aroused: and this [321] envy, however repulsive to our moral sense, seems as natural as any other malevolent emotion.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

It was excellently clever, too, of Messer Simone so to engineer his contrivance that while he seemingly included in its ranks the young bloods of every party in the state, he was able, by the wise adjustment of his machinery, to deal, or at least to intend, disaster only to those that were opposed to him.
— from The God of Love by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

For the official mixtures, see Species Emollientes, N.F., under Althaea Folia; Species Laxativae, N.F., under Senna , and Species Pectorales, under Althaea .
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

"What ails thee, O my son?" said he. "
— from The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven by William John Ferrar

However, if the instruction and training be theoretical and the time available each day be several hours, better results can be obtained by studying two or more subjects simultaneously.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

Says Mrs. Bargrave, How came you to order matters so strangely?
— from A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal The Next Day after Her Death, to one Mrs. Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September, 1705; which Apparition Recommends the Perusal of Drelincourt's Book of Consolations against the Fears of Death by Daniel Defoe

“There be figures of more shapes than one, Milly ,” saith she.
— from Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

"A Conjunction is a part of speech that is chiefly used to connect sentences, joining two or more simple sentences into one compound sentence: it sometimes connects only words.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown