“There does, indeed, seem as little to tempt her to break her resolution at present,” said Mrs. Weston, “as can well be; and while she is so happy at Hartfield, I cannot wish her to be forming any attachment which would be creating such difficulties on poor Mr. Woodhouse's account.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

However, those that were within bore the siege with courage and alacrity, for they were not discouraged, either by the famine, or by the pestilential distemper, but were of cheerful minds in the prosecution of the war, although those miseries within oppressed them also, and they did not suffer themselves to be terrified, either by the contrivances of the enemy, or by their engines of war, but contrived still different engines to oppose all the other withal, till indeed there seemed to be an entire struggle between the Babylonians and the people of Jerusalem, which had the greater sagacity and skill; the former party supposing they should be thereby too hard for the other, for the destruction of the city; the latter placing their hopes of deliverance in nothing else but in persevering in such inventions in opposition to the other, as might demonstrate the enemy's engines were useless to them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Lastly, whatever may be the cause, our globe will become cold some day, but this cold will only operate gradually.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

A sharp southwest wind was blowing, several deaths were occurring daily, the helmsmen were conducted to the wheel by companions so deathly sick that they could scarcely walk, the ship's rigging and sails were fast giving way, the weather was raw and damp,
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Her wishes being consulted, She declared herself impatient to revisit her native land.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Cover with biscuit crust, slit diagonally down the centre, and bake for an hour in a moderate oven.
— from How to Cook Fish by Myrtle Reed

"Even when we go thither—and that is rarely—twenty men with bows can scarce drive them off.
— from Captured at Tripoli: A Tale of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

There would at the same time be allusion to what was believed concerning sighs: Dr. Johnson says, 'It is a notion very prevalent, that sighs impair the strength, and wear out the animal powers.']
— from The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by William Shakespeare

‘You will be caught some day, my friend,’ Somers would occasionally observe to him.
— from The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament by Thomas Hardy

His poor mother dedicated him to St. Edmund,—left him there with prayers and tears: what better could she do?
— from Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle