Kester was an old bachelor and reputed to have stockings full of coin, concerning which his master cracked a joke with him every pay-night: not a new unseasoned joke, but a good old one, that had been tried many times before and had worn well.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Up and made me ready for Church, but my wife and I had a difference about her old folly that she would fasten lies upon her mayds, and now upon Jane, which I did not see enough to confirm me in it, and so would not consent to her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They are all natural, although now unusual, just as great musical ability is natural though not usual or common.
— from The Ocean of Theosophy by William Quan Judge

Legal system: US law, including certain criminal offenses by or against US nationals, such as murder, may apply to areas not under jurisdiction of other countries.
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

FOREWARD Among the California Missions the southern group form a natural unit, just as does, geographically, Southern California itself—the region covered by the familiar California formula, "South of the Tehachapi."
— from The Penance of Magdalena and Other Tales of the California Missions by J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton) Chase

A nation usually judges another nation by the individuals and by the Government.
— from Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever

Cook Islands none Coral Sea Islands none Costa Rica the ICJ has given Costa Rica until January 2008 to reply and Nicaragua until July 2008 to rejoin before rendering its decision on the navigation, security, and commercial rights of Costa Rican vessels on the Rio San Juan over which Nicaragua retains sovereignty Cote d'Ivoire despite the presence of over 9,000 UN forces (UNOCI) in Cote d'Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict still leaves displaced hundreds of thousands of Ivorians in and out of the country as well as driven out migrants from neighboring states who worked in Ivorian cocoa plantations; the March 2007 peace deal between Ivorian rebels and the government brought significant numbers of rebels out of hiding in neighboring states Croatia dispute remains with Bosnia and Herzegovina over several small sections of the boundary related to maritime access that hinders ratification of the 1999 border agreement; the Croatia-Slovenia land and maritime boundary agreement, which would have ceded most of Pirin Bay and maritime access to Slovenia and several villages to Croatia, remains unratified and in dispute; Slovenia also protests Croatia's 2003 claim to an exclusive economic zone in the Adriatic; as a European Union peripheral state, Slovenia imposed a hard border Schengen regime with non-member Croatia in December 2007
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

‘I feel with you,’ said the Prince, ‘when I see the smiling faces of these poor sons of the South among—well, your English faces are not usually joyous—if one may venture to be critical.’
— from The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang

The present returns with its overwhelming truth; we look about—we are alone, all alone—we find in the depths of our hearts naught save a ghastly void, and no unalloyed joy in the days to come.
— from The Bashful Lover (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIX) by Paul de Kock

In front of a farm will be found a number, usually just below the mail box, such as Alton 3-2-K.
— from The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

Sir Ralph was angry at her objecting to come up to London, and he informed her that he intended inviting several gentlemen of fortune and position to the Hall, adding, “now understand, Julia, should you receive an offer of which I approve, I must insist on your accepting it.
— from Won from the Waves by William Henry Giles Kingston