“Take no thought of the morrow,” said the foreigner, who was a Pole; had served as a boy beneath the suns of the Peninsula under Soult and fought against Diebitsch on the banks of the icy Vistula.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

There never has been any thing like widely extended, much less general distress in the United States, arising from a deprivation or curtailment of the necessaries or comforts of life.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, January 1849 by Various

It has been said that President Irrigoyen's extraordinary attitude in opposing the popular mind was due to pro-German feeling—which, however, was denied; to his aversion from merely following in the wake of the United States; and from a desire to preserve Argentina from war in order that his deep-seated plans of social and economic reform might not be disturbed.
— from Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 2 (of 2) by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

If Cleggett himself were so affected (he mused) what must be the effect of the box of Reginald Maltravers upon sensibilities as fine and delicate as those of a woman like Lady Agatha Fairhaven? "Could I—if I might——" Lady Agatha hesitated, with a glance towards the cabin.
— from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis

Different as the elements are from which the inhabitants of the United States are formed, and different as the circumstances may be under which they live, there still prevails among them a certain unity of character, an equanimity of feeling, which it would be difficult to parallel, resulting perhaps from the very heterogeneousness and mixture of elements itself, since no one element allows to another pre-eminence.
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

With a conscious effort she tried to direct her mind to the encounter of yesterday—to Lady Caryisfort and Count Buoncompagni; but somehow other figures would always intrude; and a dozen times at least she roused up sharply, as from a dream, and found herself asking again, and yet again, what had happened yesterday?
— from Ombra by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

She could not look upon such a face as Dennis Fleet's, eloquent with that which should never fail to touch a woman's heart with sympathy, and then forget it when she chose.
— from Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

In every part of the system, sudden changes produce unpleasant sensations, and frequently a diseased condition of the organs.
— from A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter