183 CHAPTER XXVII EXCITEMENT OVER FUFFCOOJAH.—I CARRY HIM TO THE COURT OF KING GELIDUS.—HIS INSTANT AFFECTION FOR PRINCESS SCHNEEBOULE.—I AM ACCUSED OF EXERCISING THE BLACK ART.—MY DEFENCE AND MY REWARD.—ANXIETY OF THE KOLTYKWERPS
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

The value of the back lands which some of the provinces are clandestinely deprived of, by the unjust extention of the limits of Canada, valued only at five pounds sterling per hundred acres, amount to upwards of twenty-five millions, Pennsylvania currency; and the quit-rents at one penny sterling per acre, to two millions yearly.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

he said with a choking voice, “Anna, for pity’s sake!...”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

All these facts lead us, when we think about them, to some such explanatory conception as this: The lower centres act from present sensational stimuli alone; the hemispheres act from perceptions and considerations, the sensations which they may receive serving only as suggesters of these.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

= KEY: Guarantee \v.\. SYN: Insure, answer for, pledge, [See WARRANT].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“What a funny poodle,” she said, feeling as though she would choke with laughter.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

38 A baseball player, for example, who is all "set" to field a ball as a preliminary to a further play, sees the ball, not simply as an approaching object, but as ball-to-be-caught-and-then-thrown-to-first-base.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

“I see you’re a good hand at fancy pictures,” said the superintendent, drily.
— from The Young Train Master by Burton Egbert Stevenson

It took about forty pages,” said Beetle.
— from Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling

The disease is common among the indians of the town, and, while both the red and white forms are found, purple seems to be the common type.
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

,” said the Prince of Wales, with a frank, pleasant smile, “I have heard great reports of thy skill and prowess in France, both from Mackworth and from others.
— from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

[283] "You must know," says the first character in that dialogue, "that there is a great deal of gravity and state in the Catholic Court, but little noise, and few people; so that it may be call'd a Monastery, rather than a Royal Court."
— from English Travellers of the Renaissance by Clare Howard

Indeed, the "flare and flicker" period sometimes proves, where war is concerned, scarcely less prolonged, and much more harassing, than the period of the full-fed flame.
— from With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry

Bill lost no time in attending to his comrade’s request, and others running up to see what it was, they pulled out of the box a fine powerful sepoy, who was taken at once to the ditch and disposed of without more ceremony.
— from The Romance of Modern Sieges Describing the personal adventures, resource and daring of besiegers and beseiged in all parts of the world by Edward Gilliat