I can feel such pricks and stabs in my left leg; I am sure there is going to be a change.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

No; it is not more honourable—far from it—but it is better; for you should strive to become, what is commonly called—“A Diner Out”—that is to say, one who continues to sit at the private tables of other men every day of his life, and by his so potent art, succeeds in making them believe that they are very much obliged to him.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

She is enormously rich; but somehow I have never been so poor as since I married her.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

I think she’ll sooner prove a soldier: Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Observe then that, though I was born in a city so powerful and so illustrious, my achievements not only surpassed the men of my own day, but all the heroes who ever lived.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Their reasoning was that "the devise is quasi [370] an act of law, which shall inure without attornment, and shall make a sufficient privity, and so it may well be apportioned by this means."
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

vii), considers that it refers to a spatula probe, and says it means the probe turned end for end.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

I can feel such pricks and stabs in my left leg that I am sure there is going to be a change."
— from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

38 For instance, if he is on small parts on an automatic machine, and the inspector throws out several pieces as spoiled, it may be the fault of a bad adjustment which the worker cannot help.
— from A Rational Wages System Some Notes on the Method of Paying the Worker a Reward for Efficiency in Addition to Wages by Henry Atkinson

From this they chopped off a short piece, and splitting it, made a couple of stout pegs, about a foot long and sharp at one end.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

I think she'll sooner prove a soldier: Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The symphysis pubis, and symphysis ischii may be continuous (Mammalia, Amphibia).
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour