He had had much experience in telegraphs, and was then engaged in constructing a telegraph line in Nova Scotia.
— from The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
"I needs had to: from my brother down to the Bailli de Crussol (and the latter is not suspect), every one said that we could not do otherwise.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
The children abounded; the law is not so stringent upon them, and many wandering merchants were there selling figs (in the name of the Prophet, doubtless) for their benefit, and elbowing onwards with baskets of grapes and cucumbers.
— from Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray
How low human happiness sank in the twentieth century, our children will only know by these extraordinary modern books, which tell people to be cheerful and that life is not so bad after all.
— from A Chesterton Calendar Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C.' both in verse and in prose. With a section apart for the moveable feasts. by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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