"I think you are making a very great mistake, but really I am not depending upon your saying a word.
— from The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace
One of the paragraphs, written for physicians, and I may say that it has been read by many thousands of them, puts my own opinion on the dual subject of the nexus between religion, insanity and nervous disease, as succinctly as I can hope to put it.
— from Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
"But, remember, I am not done with you."
— from The Rover Boys In The Mountains; Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune by Edward Stratemeyer
As the foreign population grew, banks, newspaper offices, hospitals, post-offices, and consulate buildings reappeared in a new dignity.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White
i. 31, to which the Apostle's reference is so manifest, that we cannot but regard it as nearly decisive which expression he used.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
I was heedful, therefore, that day and the days succeeding, to go only in the middle of the street, and to keep within the house after nightfall, not deeming it any mark of valour to jeopardize the happiness of three good folk and the safety of the city by running into any needless danger.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang
The following day being rainy, I am not disposed to go to the races, and also learn that our car is in need of attention.
— from Wanderings in Ireland by Michael Myers Shoemaker
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