"That is not an unnatural surmise," said Fitzwilliam, "but it is lessening the honour of my cousin's triumph very sadly."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In a few minutes the carriage returned.—Somebody talked of rain.—“I will see that there are umbrellas, sir,” said Frank to his father: “Miss Bates must not be forgotten:” and away he went.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

" But in thus ruining himself Chase had taken the first important step in a career in which he became Governor of Ohio, United States Senator from Ohio, Secretary of the United States Treasury, and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

so to add what wants In female sex, the more to draw his love, And render me more equal; and perhaps, A thing not undesirable, sometime Superiour; for, inferiour, who is free This may be well: But what if God have seen, And death ensue?
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

For as the physician, if it be expedient, infuses saffron or spikenard, aye, or uses some soothing fomentation or feeds his patient up liberally, and sometimes orders castor, "Or poley, 388 that so strong and foully smells," or pounds hellebore and compels him to drink it,—neither in the one case making unpleasantness, nor in the other pleasantness, his end and aim, but in both studying only the interest of his patient,—so the friend sometimes by praise and kindness, extolling him and gladdening his heart, leads him to what is noble, as Agamemnon, "Teucer, dear head, thou son of Telamon, Go on thus shooting, captain of thy men;" 389 or Diomede, "How could I e'er forget divine Odysseus?"
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Six brave companions from each ship we lost, The rest escape in haste, and quit the coast, With sails outspread we fly the unequal strife, Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

A certain Samoyed who had stolen a Swan-maiden’s robe, refused to return it unless she secured for him the heart of seven demon robbers, one of whom had killed the Samoyed’s mother.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The throneless ruler of the regnant race— King, but no tyrant—prophet, priest, and seer, Meets upon sacred summits, face to face (As when to Moses drew Jehovah near), The Infinite and Spirit Minister[45], Meets Him as man meets man, and by His grace
— from Elias: An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

Further, the record shows that ratification of the Treaty was advised by the United States Senate, February 16, 1815; that it was ratified February 17; and ratification exchanged the same day, and that it was promulgated February 18th.
— from Battle of New Orleans: Its Real Meaning by Reau E. (Reau Estes) Folk

As to the application of angle- and level-determining instruments to underground surveys, so far as we know there is no reference prior to Agricola, except that of Hero.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

During the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858, when both men were seeking the United States senatorship from Illinois, Lincoln, wishing either to kill Douglas's senatorial prospects or to head him off from the presidency two years later, asked him a question which put him in a dilemma.
— from Practical Argumentation by George K. (George Kynett) Pattee

In many homes of the United States, scattered far and wide, there was not happiness, but sorrow, because in the victory march down Fifth Avenue there would be for some of the onlookers
— from People of Destiny: Americans as I saw them at Home and Abroad by Philip Gibbs