“You were pleased, my Lord,” answered Sir Clement, “upon our first conversation concerning this young lady, to speak to her in terms by no means suited to your present encomiums; you said she was a poor, weak, ignorant girl, and I had great reason to believe you had a most contemptuous opinion of her.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

This is one of the stories that young people enjoyed years ago.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester

( y = A )" is, in itself , a necessary proposition is the same thing as to say that " y P entails ( y = A )" is also true.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

But he was junior partner in a well-known and respectable firm, and one of the peculiarities of China is that your position excuses your idiosyncrasies.
— from On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

"Ah," he said, with the most delicate touch of rebuke in his tone, "you perhaps expected your major-domo, your steward.
— from The White Plumes of Navarre: A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Thus spoke an aged native at one of them to the young people: ‘Exalt your voices high in praise of God.
— from The Cruise of the Mary Rose; Or, Here and There in the Pacific by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Do I know what?" "Does you know who's jess erbout ther fines' and likelies' man whut lives in all these yer pahts erroun' yer?"
— from The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Emerson Hough