From this disposition sprang the principles to which they always adhered in the administration of public affairs, and in the defense of which they appear to have been always ready to make any necessary sacrifice.
— from Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren

There is the person who wants to know where the nearest tea-shop is, or which omnibus goes to the Circus, or whether you have seen any one with pink wings—the last being a reference to millinery and not to aviation.
— from Rebel women by Evelyn Sharp

I haven't forgotten how you forged my name to an order to have the brigade ambulance report to me at noon, the very hour of the race.
— from From Headquarters: Odd Tales Picked up in the Volunteer Service by James A. (James Albert) Frye