To Go Out With Someone

"...I would only advise you, my dear, not to go out with Mr. Thorpe any more."

--Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 13

Perfectly Right

[N]ow that she had been triumphant throughout, had carried her point, and was secure of her walk, she began (as the flutter of her spirits supsided) to doubt whether she had been perfectly right.

--Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 13

Content as "Trash"

Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans.

--Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (Chapter 5), published in 1818 but said to have been written between 1798 and 1799, and revised in 1803.

To Be Sick of Something

"I tell Mr. Allen, when he talks of being sick of (the place), that I am sure he should not complain ..."

--Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (Chapter 8), published in 1818 but said to have been written between 1798 and 1799, and revised in 1803.

Driving Speed! Very important, this one:

Catherine, though she could not help wondering that with such perfect command of his horse, he should think it necessary to alarm her with a relation of its tricks, congratulated herself sincerely on being under the care of so excellent a coachman; and perceiving that the animal continued to go on in the same quiet manner, without showing the smallest propensity towards any unpleasant vivacity, and (considering its inevitable pace was ten miles an hour) by no means alarmingly fast ...

--Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (Chapter 9), published in 1818 but said to have been written between 1798 and 1799 and revised in 1803.

That's a Good One! (As Something Ha-ha Funny)

"Did not we agree to take a drive this morning? What a head you have! We are going to Claverton Down."

"Something was said about it, I remember," said Catherine, looking at Mrs. Allen for her opinion; "but really I did not expect you."

"Not expect me! That's a good one! And what dust you would have made, if I had not come."

--Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 9

To Make Someone Out To Be Something

"'Make me out, if you please, to be a villain.'" --Arthur Mervyn (Charles Brockden Brown, 1799), Chapter XXV

To Buy Someone Off

"In every argument with her mother, Susan had in point of reason the advantage, and never was there any maternal tenderness to buy her off." --Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814), Chapter 40

Many thanks to Shayne Parkinson, of New Zealand, for this entry!

Totally

He was totally careless of his person and health, and, by repeated negligences of this kind, at last contracted a fever of which he speedily died. --Arthur Mervyn (Charles Brockden Brown, 1799), Chapter III

"He would answer, but in such a way as to show him totally unaware of your true meaning." --Arthur Mervyn (Charles Brockden Brown, 1799), Chapter XXV

Scarcely

I could scarcely recognize any lineaments of my own. --Arthur Mervyn (Charles Brockden Brown, 1799), Chapter V