I was very glad, Sir, to be among the first to come to congratulate you upon rising to such a high degree of honor.
— from The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière

When, two or three years ago, you opposed this establishment in its infancy, you undoubtedly represented their sentiments and feelings, as most certainly you supported their true interest.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Not only, it was urged, had Constantine yielded up Rome to Sylvester and his successors, Lothar the Saxon had at his coronation formally renounced his sovereignty by doing homage to the pontiff and receiving the crown as his vassal.
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

The tide of confederation, and corporate union is manifestly rising, the wave of extended British influence is flowing northwards, the various nationalities and states of this vast country are educating themselves by experience to see the folly and sterile weakness of isolation, and are learning to realise the inherent strength, and vitality of mutual co-operation, based on a self respecting, yet unselfish responsibility to South Africa as a whole.
— from A Winter Tour in South Africa by Frederick Young

Noel Draycott, stooping, picking up the card, showed it to the assembled players, in whose demeanour, for some as yet unspoken reason, there seemed to have come a sudden change.
— from Violet Forster's Lover by Richard Marsh

"Well," said the colonel, with a little twinkle in his eye, "it is just possible that your Uncle Ruthven took some other people into consideration,—myself and Marion, for instance.
— from Bessie and Her Friends by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

These reflections and explanations do much harm; they instil prejudice, and they accustom the young unsuspicious reader to swallow absurd reasoning, merely because it is often presented to him.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

True as this may be in general, it is not permanently and profoundly true, and there are people who are reckoned, and still reckon themselves, happy, but who yet unawares reveal the secret disappointment which clouds their inward peace.
— from Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties by Marie Carmichael Stopes

I says, not knowin' she done put it on the Almighty,—'Honey,' I say, 'that's fur your Uncle Richard to say.'
— from A Modern Madonna by Caroline Abbot Stanley