I see the effects already; do you say, how?
— from The Gipsies' Advocate Or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of the English Gipsies by James Crabb

It was surprising what an amount of light seemed to come in when the water sank, and then by contrast the darkness was horrible, and the lanthorn seemed to emit a dismal yellow glow.
— from Menhardoc by George Manville Fenn

"'Come,' he urged, 'let's go in somewhere and have something to eat and drink.' "'Yes, I will have something, not to eat, [54] though, but let us go where there are lots of people and lights and all that sort of thing,' I finished, vaguely.
— from An Anarchist Woman by Hutchins Hapgood

[266] A second cause “is our most dear and most entirely beloved wife the queen, being now quick with child, for the which we give most humble thanks to Almighty God, albeit she is in every condition of that loving inclination and reverend conformity, that she can in all things well content, satisfy, and quiet herself with that thing which we shall think expedient and determine; yet, considering that, being a woman, upon some sudden and displeasant rumours and brutes that might be blown abroad in our absence, she might take impressions which might engender danger to that
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

If I comprehend your art aright, its essence is opposed to the addition of superhuman dignity and beauty, with which you, or the model you used, strove to ennoble and deify your Demeter.
— from Arachne — Volume 06 by Georg Ebers

But, when stating these excellent arguments, did you ask yourself, sir, whither would tend such a transformation of our system of mortgages?...
— from What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

Draw All Your Figures as Large as the Paper Will Permit you to make them; otherwise the audience, or some persons in the back part of the audience, will miss part of your talk, and that will spoil their enjoyment and diminish your applause.
— from New Ideas for American Boys; The Jack of All Trades by Daniel Carter Beard

Now, however, that you have had something to eat and drink you can certainly row on until we reach the ships.”
— from By Conduct and Courage: A Story of the Days of Nelson by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He longed to shout, to cry her beauty aloud, to flaunt it and her condescension to him in the faces of other men, but there was no one he could speak to except a dull yokel, to whom the very name of love would convey nothing but the most ordinary instincts.
— from The Sheep-Stealers by Violet Jacob