When you become educated, as a natural consequence you will become more intelligent, sober, industrious, and prosperous.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

This fellow had, when young, been engaged with him in a course of mutual and unnatural pollution, but, being at last quite tired of the occupation, ran away.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The power of twining depends, firstly, on the stems while young being extremely flexible (but this is a character common to many plants which are not climbers); and, secondly, on their continually bending to all points of the compass, one after the other in succession, in the same order.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

"Tomorrow; yes; but early.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

You have spoken”—she turned to Jeff, “of Human Brotherhood as a great idea among you, but even that I judge is far from a practical expression?”
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

"Mother, why don't you bring Ellen here?
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Hence the West country proverb— “A woman, a whelp, and a walnut tree, The more you BASH ’em, the better they be.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

[Footnote: George Eliot thought so too, years before Evadne was born, and expressed the thought in a letter in which she also prophesied that "Ruth" would not live through a generation.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

The Court of King Katzekopf is not a wholesome atmosphere for you; but every place has its trials, and I am satisfied that you will profit by your past experience.”
— from The Hope of the Katzekopfs; or, The Sorrows of Selfishness. A Fairy Tale. by Francis Edward Paget

There are five such schools on the Yukon between Eagle and Tanana, including these two points, amongst Indians all of whom belong to the Episcopal Church, and five more between Tanana and Anvik, amongst natives divided in allegiance between the Episcopal and the Roman Catholic Churches.
— from Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck

A glance at the chart [240] told that young but experienced officer that he could not hope to bring his ship to the scene of the disaster before dusk closed down, and a message was sparked across the eighty miles of intervening sea asking how long the crippled ship could be kept afloat.
— from Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace Was Met and Vanquished, with Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships, Nets, Aircraft, &c. &c., Also Describing the Selection and Training of the Enormous Personnel Used in This New Branch of the Navy by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife

Once at the woman's house you can hardly say nay to being one in a jig, knowing all the time that you be expected to make yourself worth your victuals.”
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

"And one thing more: your brother Eugen, or Ödön, as you call him, has paid the penalty of his treason with his life—" "Yes, I know it," interrupted the other; "but I am puzzled how the German and the Hungarian names—" Here he was sharply cut short.
— from The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by Mór Jókai

You who scorn his folly might pardon, could you but enter into half his feelings as he waits amid the elder-bushes.
— from The Gay Adventure: A Romance by Richard Bird

At the time of our narrative the service was in process of formation and was not yet formed; and the sequence of Epistle and Gospel had not as yet been established.
— from Domitia by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

See there,” he drew a paper from his pocket, “wouldn't dare show up without 'em, ye bet, eh, Tim!
— from Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: A Tale of the Macleod Trail by Ralph Connor

“ Dear Sir, “Friendship may live, I grant you, without being fed and cherished by correspondence; but with that additional benefit I am of opinion it will look more cheerful and thrive better: for in this case, as in love, though a man is sure of his own constancy, yet his happiness depends a good deal upon the sentiments of another, and while you and Chloe are alive, 'tis not enough that I love you both, except I am sure you both love me again; and as one of her scrawls fortifies my mind more against affliction than all Epictetus, with Simplicius's comments into the bargain, so your single letter gave me more real pleasure than all the works of Plato....
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray