“It’s my turn, but I plead exemption,” said Ptitsin.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

VII BEGINNING BUSINESS IN PHILADELPHIA E sail'd from Gravesend on the 23rd of July, 1726.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

It was in vain that the great obstinately threatened, by the exercise of their prerogatives, to try and crush this tendency to equality which alarmed them, by issuing pecuniary edicts, summary laws, coercive regulations, and penal ordinances; by the force of circumstances the arbitrary restrictions which the nobility laid upon the lower classes gradually disappeared, and the power of wealth displayed itself in spite of all their efforts to suppress it.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Northumberland had been in prison ever since the year of the Gunpowder Plot, 1605, eleven years, a victim to the suspicions of the king and the tyranny of the Star Chamber, for no participation in the plot was ever proved against him.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Footnotes During this period the ingenuity of man came to woman's rescue, by the invention of an interesting, and, judging by its popularity, exceedingly serviceable contrivance known as a dress elevator, which enabled ladies to instantly elevate their enormous trains when they came to a particularly muddy and filthy crossing.
— from The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Various

They had really been in preparation ever since the embargo pamphlet of 1808, and that was one reason for their ripeness and terseness, for their easy flow and condensed force.
— from Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge

Do you feel sorry for the sparrows as well as Bob?" "I pity every sparrow that is hurt," said the boy, "and isn't Bob of more consequence than a sparrow?
— from The Potato Child & Others by Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury

"YOU WOULDN'T THINK IT TO LOOK AT 'IM, BUT WHEN I SAYS ''ANDS UP,' 'E ANSWERS BACK IN PUFFICK ENGLISH, 'STEADY ON WITH YER BLINKIN' TOOTHPICK,' 'E SEZ, 'AND I'LL COME QUIET.'" OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 by Various

CUSA is associated with no organization or group, be it political, economic, social, fraternal, or religious.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Mr. Wing had been in Philadelphia ever since the day of Veronica's arrest, but they had not heard from him since.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit; Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos by Hildegard G. Frey