The battle of Bunker Hill was fought at Boston in June, and he took part in it.
— from Once Upon a Time in Connecticut by Caroline Clifford Newton

May all our persuasions be constantly used to bring poor thoughtless sinners to repentance but introduce them not as members of that house until you have a scriptural hope that they have passed from death unto life—that they are believers in Jesus, and have brought forth fruit meet for repentance.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

How long would it be, asked Bertha, before the audience broke into jeers and hisses?
— from Mrs. Craddock by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I suppose I should have said to her that it's 'better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all,' but I just asked her if he was handsome, which was foolish, because she'd think he was if he was as homely as anything."
— from Highacres by Jane Abbott

They had had misfortune after misfortune—the little patrimony which had enabled Frau Wildermann to yield to Ulric's darling wish of being a musician by profession, had been lost by a bad investment just as his musical education
— from A Christmas Posy by Mrs. Molesworth

For, lo! said they, when we came to Jerusalem we found that all believed in Jeschu, and had risen and had expelled the King out of the city because he believed not; and many of the elders have they slain.
— from The Lost and Hostile Gospels An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

What if he should step on his birthdays and bend it just as he had the spoon?
— from Bobby in Search of a Birthday by Lebbeus Mitchell

We are bound in justice and honor to protect our fellow-citizens on the frontiers; we demand from them an excise.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress