The correspondence itself showed, in a letter from Robert Peel, then secretary to Lord Liverpool, that the letters of Henry were found, as a matter of course, among Canadian official papers, as they related to public affairs; but they had either never attracted any attention or had been entirely forgotten, and Lord Liverpool was quite ignorant of any "arrangement or agreement" that had been made between the governor of Canada and his emissary to New England.
— from James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay

There is comfort in weeping on a father's bosom, even for a loss like mine.
— from Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

It has been empty for a long, long time." CHAPTER III ODD!
— from The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or, Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause by Gertrude W. Morrison

When they reached the end of the veranda, their hostess paused before a set of shoji screens, knelt, and pushed aside the rice-paper covered frames to reveal a room entirely bare except for a low lacquer table.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

The entertainment was a play that was made on purpose to be acted by the three several companies of players of this town, the intention whereof was so good; the place where it was acted being set out with three several scenes of much ostentation, and the disposition of the lights so full of novelty and delight, that I am highly tempted to give your honour a larger description of it, but that it would prove to be business enough for a large letter.
— from The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume