The old sexton even expressed a doubt as to Shakespeare having been born in her house.—Irving.
The fact of the Romans not burying their dead within the city walls proper is a strong reason, etc.—Brewer.
I remember Wordsworth once laughingly reporting to me a little personal anecdote.—De Quincey.
Here I state them only in brief, to prevent the reader casting about in alarm for my ultimate meaning.—Ruskin.
We think with far less pleasure of Cato tearing out his entrails than of Russell saying, as he turned away from his wife, that the bitterness of death was past.—Macaulay.
There is actually a kind of sacredness in the fact of such a man being sent into this earth.—Carlyle.
Possessive.
There is no use for any man's taking up his abode in a house built of glass.—Carlyle.
As to his having good grounds on which to rest an action for life.—Dickens.
The case was made known to me by a man's holding out the little creature dead.—De Quincey.