It might be partly owing to my own stupidity, my want of tact and assurance: but I felt myself wronged: I trembled with apprehension; and I listened with envy to her easy, rapid flow of utterance, and saw with anxiety the bright smile with which she looked into his face from time to time: for she was walking a little in advance, for the purpose (as I judged) of being seen as well as heard.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Up to now we have never had more than three or four officers well enough to sit up to meals at one time, as they have always come to us really ill, and as soon as they were well enough they have either rushed back to the front or have been sent home on the hospital ships; but with these officers from Mooi River (none of them very ill), I suddenly found that we had twenty-four sick officers in, and that sixteen of them were well enough to sit up to meals, and that it was not suitable for them to eat in the ward where there were a few men still very ill; so, eventually, [Pg 210] a large tent had to be rigged up for them, and as it was a long way from the kitchen there was some difficulty in getting the food to them hot.
— from A Nurse's Life in War and Peace by E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence

And poor Cinnamon's shattered leg was evidence that his evil reputation was not unjustified.
— from Bear Brownie: The Life of a Bear by Harry Perry Robinson

It is said that the amount of offerings made at the tomb during the reign of Edward III. was enough to have entirely rebuilt the abbey.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé

It seems, however, that there were exceptions to her extreme reserve.
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

And poor Cinnamon’s shattered leg was evidence that his evil reputation was not unjustified.
— from The Life Story of a Black Bear by Harry Perry Robinson

There was a matter-of-fact air about the fashion in which the lady made her suggestion which, even to his eyes, rather blurred the romance of the situation.
— from Confessions of a Young Lady: Her Doings and Misdoings by Richard Marsh

Mr. Thompson says, a man is a citizen by inherent right, wherever he is born; the British monarchy, which Mr. Thompson says he prefers to all things else, says on the contrary, that let a man be born where he may he is a Briton, if born of British parents; and it both claims his allegiance, and will extend to him every right of a subject born at home!
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge