Take out the yolks and put in a salad bowl, add one-half cup of fresh bread crumbs, one raw egg yolk, and season with salt, pepper, and a little chopped parsley.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

The Church, the greatest institution of the village has its annual election—that for a churchwarden; of the three churchwardens one retires every year.
— from A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by George McKinnon Wrong

Now, because this war, in which you are now desirous of engaging, is very much opposed to the interest of the King, our Lord, we consider that your Excellency ought to weigh well, before entering upon it, how little Cogeatar is to blame for objecting to have against all reason to pay down in ready money 15,000 cruzados of revenue every year, contrary to the honour of such a large city and kingdom; yet, if notwithstanding all this, your Excellency is determined to prosecute the war, and break the peace and agreement which has been made with him, it is our opinion that you ought not to do so; for it would be more to the service of the King, our Lord, if we were now to quit this city and temporize with Cogeatar, and in the course of the year return in strength in order to subdue it, and confirm our hold upon it, than to destroy it for ever.
— from Rulers of India: Albuquerque by H. Morse (Henry Morse) Stephens

It is necessary to keep along the rivers in a canoe or raft, else you cannot get from place to place.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

In the case of real estate you get no warranty but what you bargain for.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

He was fitting into his niche in the world with no rough edges, all of them having been worn smooth, and it seemed that it was his lot to remain for the rest of his life dominie of the Presbyterian Church of Riverbank, each year better loved and more helpful.
— from Dominie Dean: A Novel by Ellis Parker Butler

With, perhaps, a couple of rare exceptions, yes, he spoke to me in Russian.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

On the following morning, at an early hour, the six attendants whom he had required were brought before him in array, exhibiting, with one exception, as sweet a congregation of roguish faces as the great capital of roguery ever yet produced.
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 2 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James