Miss Jenkyns once said, in a passion against Captain Brown (the cause of which I will tell you presently), p. 9
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Flushed with praise and victory over Master Toffy, George wished naturally to pursue his conquests further, and one day as he was strutting about in prodigiously dandified new clothes, near St. Pancras, and a young baker's boy made sarcastic comments upon his appearance, the youthful patrician pulled off his dandy jacket with great spirit, and giving it in charge to the friend who accompanied him (Master Todd, of Great Coram Street, Russell Square, son of the junior partner of the house of Osborne and Co.), George tried to whop the little baker.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

It reminded Tess of a Confirmation, in which Mrs d'Urberville was the bishop, the fowls the young people presented, and herself and the maid-servant the parson and curate of the parish bringing them up.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

In the almost entire absence of all these, you personally provided and organised everything, drilled those who had reached the age for military service, got together a force of cavalry to match the enemy's, and issued orders for the infantry to persevere in their training.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

[Pepys might well be anxious on this point, for in October of this year Phieas Pett, assistant master shipwright at Chatham, was dismissed from his post for having when a Child spoken disrespectfully of the King.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

On a Thursday my dear father and mother were married; and, though poor, they are a very happy pair.—On a Thursday your poor Pamela was born.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

In the year previous, Pronchisheff all but succeeded in doubling the Taimyr peninsula, and reached the highest latitude (77° 29') that had been reached by water before the Vega expedition.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

I propose, in a series of papers, to discuss the following interesting particulars: THE UTILITY OF THE UNION TO YOUR POLITICAL PROSPERITY THE INSUFFICIENCY OF
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

If, then, you properly put these statements together, and reason upon them a bit, you will clearly perceive that, according to all human reasoning, Procopius's sea-monster, that for half a century stove the ships of a Roman Emperor, must in all probability have been a sperm whale.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Falls, indeed, are made to seem a mere background to your photograph, p. 164 in which he is careful to show you nearest the camera, and hence proportionately by far the most imposing object.
— from Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America, and Egypt by Tangye, Richard, Sir

It is astonishing, as Baroni said, what order and discipline will do; but how that wonderful house upon wheels contrived to contain all these articles of dress, from the uniform of the marshal of France to the diminutive blouse of little Michel, and how their wearers always managed to issue from it as if they came forth from the most commodious and amply-furnished mansion, was truly yet pleasingly perplexing.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

On his return from an excursion to Diodati, an occasion was afforded for the gratification of his jesting propensities by the avowal of the young physician (Polidori) that—he had fallen in love.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 474, Supplementary Number by Various

The young princes played all day with the children of the towns-people, because they went to the same school with them, and no one had a word to say against it, which would hardly be the case now-a-days, for kings and everybody else are grown much grander than they were then.
— from Fairy Tales From all Nations by Anthony R. (Anthony Reubens) Montalba

In the kivas fasted the Hopi priests, the youth planted prayer plumes by the shrines of the dying wells, and the woman danced dances at sunrise, and all sang the prayers to the gods:––and each day the store of corn was lower, and the seed in the ground could not grow.
— from The Flute of the Gods by Marah Ellis Ryan

The fear, however, which was in her mind as to the reparation which was expected of her was dispelled by Lord Chetwynde's answer: "I want you, my child," said he, "to try and improve yourself--to get on as fast as you can with your masters, so that when the time comes for you to take your proper place in society you may be equal to ladies of your own rank in education and accomplishments.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille

"I feel bound, however," she continued, "to warn your highness that, after all that has been said, and the personal interest his Majesty feels in the success of these negotiations, he will be so incensed at any withdrawal on your part now, that your personal [Pg 283] liberty—yes, madame," she repeated, seeing the Princess's look of terror, "your personal liberty will be in danger.
— from Old Court Life in France, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

This will trouble you, per [Pg 181] haps irritate you.
— from Popular Amusements by J. T. (Jonathan Townley) Crane