What did it matter that the written words of all authorities upon such subjects in every land were in absolute accord with Dr. Wormley?
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

Should she remain, the danger was very great that both she and her son might be captured; and unless she should immediately escape, all egress might be cut off, as the Allies were rapidly surrounding the city.
— from Joseph Bonaparte Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

She did know that she was doing her best, but how great the force of her best was she was not aware until she saw its effects.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Six thousand dollars to you if Justin Wingate does not vote, or votes for our man; and you can draw on me for it the day after a United States senator is elected, if I fail to pay it.
— from Justin Wingate, Ranchman by John Harvey Whitson

Under these impressions, so fully dilated— Item .—I give and bequeath, in perpetuity, the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac company (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia), toward the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the general government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand toward it; and, until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these shares shall be required for its support, my further will and desire is, that the profit accruing therefrom shall, whenever the dividends are made, be laid out in purchasing stock in the Bank of Columbia, or some other bank, at the discretion of my executors, or by the Treasurer of the United States for the time being, under the direction of Congress, provided that honorable body should patronize the measure; and the dividends proceeding from the purchase of such stock are to be vested in more stock, and so on, until a sum adequate to the accomplishment of the object is obtained; of which I have not the smallest doubt before many years pass away, even if no aid or encouragement is given by the legislative authority, or from any other source.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing