A LADY, WHO IS GOSSIP TO ONE OF THEM; THE LATTER DIETH AND RETURNING TO HIS COMPANION, ACCORDING TO PROMISE MADE HIM, RELATETH TO HIM HOW FOLK FARE IN THE OTHER WORLD It now rested only with the king to tell and he accordingly, as soon as he saw the ladies quieted, who lamented the cutting down of the unoffending pear-tree, began, "It is a very manifest thing that every just king should be the first to observe the laws made by him, and an he do otherwise, he must be adjudged a slave deserving of punishment and not a king, into which offence and under which reproach I, who am your king, am in a manner constrained to fall.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Why, I never remember one with so little doing.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various

Steel and iron have superseded the old suspension bridge of huge cables made of vegetable fiber, with its narrow roadway of wattles supported by a network of vines.
— from Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

Glory be to God, for a wonder, it never runs on what is wrong, but only on indifferent things, considering what is going on here, or there, or elsewhere.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint

The one first forms his own ideas of things, of what is, and what is not, right or wrong, and then goes to the Scriptures to sanction or corroborate those ideas; the other forms no opinion whatever, until he searches the sacred oracles of truth to ascertain what they say on the subject.
— from Abolitionism Exposed! Proving the the Principles of Abolitionism are Injurious to the Slaves Themselves, Destructive to This Nation, and Contrary to the Express Commands of God by W. W. (William Willcocks) Sleigh

But, brethren, beware; for I tell you in the name of the Lord, that there is an evil in this very congregation, which, if not repented of will result in setting many of you, who are here this day, so much at enmity against me, that you will have a desire to take my life; and you even would do it , if God should permit the deed.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith

Most probably, than , at first had the force of a preposition, which it now retains only when followed by the relative."— Bullions, E. Gram. , of 1843, p. 112.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Pictures, too, were hung upon the walls, or more accurately speaking; coarse colored lithographs, the subjects of which, if not really obscene, were flashing, or vulgar.
— from Ten Nights in a Bar Room by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

We ask our readers severely to test all our statements, whether of principle or of fact, and to suffer nothing in the least to influence them which is not rational, or which is not true.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

“ My Dear and Worthy Friend, — “You have no reason to put me among the rest of your forgetful friends, for I wrote two long letters to you, to which I never received one word of answer.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray