Now, pray, Caddy," said Mrs. Jellyby, for Caddy was kissing her, "don't delay me in my work, but let me clear off this heavy batch of papers before the afternoon post comes in!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Thus, not only are physical causes inadequate to produce results analogous to those which occur in North America, but they are unable to raise the population of South America above the level of European States, where they act in a contrary direction.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

With what phases, to what extent, with what results it will burn off, Philosophy and Perspicacity conjecture in vain. 'Man,' as has been written, 'is for ever interesting to man; nay properly there is nothing else interesting.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

THE BET BY ANTON P. CHEKHOV I I t was a dark autumn night.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But if he directly attacks a general principle without having a particular case in view, he leaves the circle in which all nations have agreed to confine his authority, he assumes a more important, and perhaps a more useful, influence than that of the magistrate, but he ceases to be a representative of the judicial power.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The foregoing will give the reader a pretty clear idea of the manner in which it was possible for this man of thirty-three to waste his time.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

I don't deny that there are peculiar complications in this case; but the case itself is, most unhappily, common—common.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

For keep it like a puzzle chest in chest, With each chest locked and padlocked thirty-fold, And whelm all this beneath as vast a mound As after furious battle turfs the slain On some wild down above the windy deep, I yet should strike upon a sudden means To dig, pick, open, find and read the charm: Then, if I tried it, who should blame me then?'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

My uncle Toby loved the man in return, and what attached him more to him still, was the similitude of their knowledge.—For Corporal Trim, (for so, for the future, I shall call him) by four years occasional attention to his Master's discourse upon fortified towns, and the advantage of prying and peeping continually into his Master's plans, &c. exclusive and besides what he gained Hobby-Horsically, as a body-servant, Non Hobby Horsical per se;—had become no mean proficient in the science; and was thought, by the cook and chamber-maid, to know as much of the nature of strong-holds as my uncle Toby himself.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

[A; a] put copra in a tray to dry.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In a previous chapter I have reported the answer of the British admiral in charge to my request to be allowed to cruise on an American destroyer.
— from The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

His opinions were always plain, couched in good strong Anglo-Saxon, terse and sound, and will long bear the close and sharp criticism of posterity.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

And as far as I am personally concerned, I guess it will do for the time being.
— from Jane Allen, Center by Edith Bancroft

The first settlement was made by Leonard Calvert, who, in February, 1634, arrived at Point Comfort, in Virginia, with about two hundred Roman Catholics.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

The bottles are then filled up with water and potassium carbonate is added until the fluid, after shaking, shows no acid reaction.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite

This was the sort of garden I made my way over , for an eighth of a mile, at the risk, it is true, of treading on some of the plants, not seeing any path through it,—certainly the most treacherous and porous country I ever traveled.
— from The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

The Seattle Amateur Press Club is composed of amateurs residing in Seattle.
— from Harper's Round Table, February 4, 1896 by Various

She had three lovely and promising children, in whom all our hearts were bound up.
— from Gleanings by the Way by John A. (John Alonzo) Clark

18 And Eva followed the murmuring brook, which seemed to her like a pleasant companion in this silent land, where, even as there was no sound, there was no sign of life; nothing like the real world which the child had left, and of which, with the fall of the little violet from her curls, she had lost all recollection; even as though that world had never existed for her.
— from Eva's Adventures in Shadow-Land by Mary D. (Mary Dummett) Nauman