On going out the Assistant Commissioner made to himself the observation that the patrons of the place had lost in the frequentation of fraudulent cookery all their national and private characteristics.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

" "And how much?" "Well, I could add the name, and put it up at Weatherbury for the sum you mention.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

[37] 'WHEREAS, by the war, society is once more resolved into its original elements, and in the reconstruction of our government we again stand face to face with the broad question of natural rights, all associations based on special claims for special classes are too narrow and partial for the hour; therefore, from the baptism of a second Revolution, purified and exalted by suffering, seeing with a holier vision that the peace, prosperity and perpetuity of the republic rest on Equal Rights to All, we, today assembled in our Eleventh National Woman's Rights Convention, bury the woman in the citizen, and our organization in that of the American Equal Rights Association.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The river enters through a small canyon at the northwest and passes out through another canyon at the south end.
— from Birdseye Views of Far Lands by James T. (James Thomas) Nichols

The slaughter continued all the night and part of the following day, and hundreds were burned to death in their huts.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

213 “Nonsense!” exclaimed the professor, cautiously approaching the net and poking it with his fingers.
— from The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship by Richard Bonner

Now they saw the air in the halls of Congress, and their names are plastered on the temple of fame.
— from Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye

I believed then, and I was to know later, that I was correct, and that nothing at present apparent could swerve her from her set purpose, or could influence her against the cause she had undertaken, and was now upholding, so valiantly.
— from Princess Zara by Ross Beeckman

But now, by my father’s especial commandment, I obey him in presenting to you my humble duty, in a tedious letter which is to know your ladyship’s pleasure, not as a thing I desire, but I resolve to be wholly ruled by my father and yourself, knowing your judgment to be such that I may well rely upon, and hoping that conscience and the natural affection parents bear to children, will let you do nothing but for my good, and that you may receive comfort, I being a mere child, and not understanding the world, nor what is good for myself.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

The party of confederates accepted this name, and prided themselves on it; and in every language in which the history of the revolt of the Netherlands has been written, this French term, ‘gueux,’ is used to designate these malcontents.
— from A Book About Words by G. F. (George Frederick) Graham

The present assembly stands midway between the old Church and the new, and participates in both.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

Her young voice died away in a soft murmuring cadence, and the nightingale alone poured out her heartful of lore to the ancient moon.
— from Marzio's Crucifix, and Zoroaster by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford