He then used this emphatical expression of the misery which he felt: 'I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Tell him, if he'll call on me, and dawdle over a dish of tea in an afternoon, I shall take it kind.' The Reverend Mr. Smith, Vicar of Southill, a very respectable man, with a very agreeable family, sent an invitation to us to drink tea.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The arrest of the fifteen women of Rochester, and the imprisonment of the renowned Miss Susan B. Anthony, for voting at the November election, afford a curious illustration of the extent to which the United States government is stretching its hand in these matters.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

and, anxious to render my sex more respectable members of society, I shall try to avoid that flowery diction which has slided from essays into novels, and from novels into familiar letters and conversation.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

And the country is set along upon the river of Nile, by as much as that river may serve by floods or otherwise, that when it floweth it may spread abroad through the country; so is the country large of length.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

It was particularly nice to be hospitably received in my sister's house, where I hoped to revive my somewhat exhausted means of travel.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

He came to earth on a Messianic mission, teaching justice, fortitude, and forbearance to the red men, showing them how to improve their handicraft, ridding the woods and hills of monsters, and finally going up to heaven amid cries of wonder from those on whose behalf he had worked and counselled.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

None of those who thought as he did at Wittenberg were more anxious lest the religious movement should jeopardise the peace; in none of them is the sense of responsibility so marked as in Melanchthon.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

It was all over in a few minutes, and the whole army, crossing the river, moved steadily on toward Staunton, where Early had been in camp, and where Sheridan hoped to find him.
— from The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

She had taught Rebecca Mary's stiff little fingers to set the first stitches in it; she had made her rip out this purple square and that pink-checked one, and this one and that one and that.
— from Rebecca Mary by Annie Hamilton Donnell

We peeped through the windows, where the rooms were all empty; but the state of the walls and floors, and the remaining mirrors, showed that some care was still bestowed upon this deserted hall.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

But mark me, dear Theresa, if you would have me be so, you can even yet do much toward rendering me so.”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, September 1849 by Various

The recumbent men sprang to their feet with a bound and charged the scattered Bavarians with the bayonet, driving them and making the rout complete.
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola

But the curious thing about the boy was that he expressed the passions of pride and lust and cruelty more intensely even than Rops, more spontaneously than anyone who ever held pencil.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 by Frank Harris

In fact, he proposed to her that the invitation should also convey that information in the expression, “by the kind permission of the Rev. Mr. Saltover,” as a guarantee of good faith, but the widow would have none of it.
— from Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte