“These gentlemen, Comminges, are not prisoners,” returned Mazarin, with his ironical smile, “only guests; but guests so precious that I have put a grating before each of their windows and bolts to their doors, that they may not refuse to continue my visitors.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

They are not particularly rare, many small houses possessing specimens.
— from Old Glass and How to Collect it by J. Sydney Lewis

——“You make a mistake, I am not,” promptly replied my smoker, who had taken his pipe from his mouth at the approach of the guard, and was holding it out of sight.
— from John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull) by Max O'Rell

The first impressions a new patient receives may be the lasting ones, and influence their whole conduct in the asylum.
— from How to Care for the Insane: A Manual for Nurses by William D. Granger

He darted through the vast saloon, which was now full of smoke and of people drinking, uttering his cry: "Waiter, a 'bock'—and a new pipe." REGRET Monsieur Savel, who was called in Mantes, "Father Savel," had just risen from bed.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant

We are not produced ready made.
— from Creation and Its Records A Brief Statement of Christian Belief with Reference to Modern Facts and Ancient Scripture by B. H. (Baden Henry) Baden-Powell

Although not pre-eminently a naval power, Russia must ultimately seek to accomplish what Germany tried to do—make it dangerous for England to menace her Mediterranean and Red Sea trade even in war times.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl

In fact a noted moralist has said that "tea has checked our boisterous revels, raised women to a new position, refined manners, and softened the character of men."
— from With Edge Tools by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor

There were sixty or seventy kinsfolk and neighbors, plain rustic men and women, in the little company that set out from Nazareth.
— from The Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke