"Nothing; but you see, my time is everything to me; and I am already a little behindhand, in occasionally nursing the poor woman Morel; and you may imagine that an hour in one way and an hour in another makes in time a day; a day brings thirty sous, and if we earn nothing one must still live all the same.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue
Why did those eyes, unless they moved, which they didn't, always look back into ours no matter in what part of the room we stood?—a perpetual puzzle to our childish uninformed brains.
— from Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
Barry, there is a little bird in our New-England woods known only by its pleasant chirp; yet who would break its amber bill because the nightingales in eastern lands warble so deliciously?"
— from Daisy's Necklace, and What Came of It by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The best complete Gothic work that I have seen is at Leon; but it offers no variety whatever from the best of the same age in France.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street
In by far the greater number of instances a lone bachelor is oppressed, neglected, and perhaps robbed.”
— from The Squatter's Dream: A Story of Australian Life by Rolf Boldrewood
T is usually positive in all leads , but is occasionally negative in Lead III.
— from Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension, with Chapters on Blood Pressure 3rd Edition. by Louis M. (Louis Marshall) Warfield
It was assessed from 2-5s. per carcuate [100 acres] and collected for the king by knights with little or no remuneration, and later by inquest of neighbors.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly
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