After much experimenting, the Continental Paper Bag Co., of Rumford, Maine, and New York City, has succeeded in [11] producing the ideal bag which may now be found in varying sizes, at all the large house-furnishing stores, grocers, butchers, etc., or the bags may be ordered direct from headquarters.
— from Standard Paper-Bag Cookery by Emma Paddock Telford

Travelers who came here with pockets bulging with express checks and bank notes are unable to get a cent of real money, and nobody shows any enthusiasm over American paper.
— from A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

Mr. SHIPPEN next rose, and spoke thus:—Sir, as I have always endeavoured to act upon conviction of my duty, to examine opinions before I admit them, and to speak what I have thought the truth, I do not easily change my conduct, or retract my assertions; nor am I deterred from repeating my arguments when I have a right to speak, by the remembrance that they have formerly been unsuccessful.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson

The cost of regular military and naval establishments, a new feature in the national system, was thrown suddenly on the crown; and the revenue was unequal to so large a demand upon it.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

Dave chuckled, or rather made a noise something like a bray.
— from Dick o' the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn

The Countess of Richmond maintained a number of poor people within her own walls.
— from Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James

It was a country made for defense, a country of rugged mountains and natural fastnesses, and inhabited by a hardy and warlike population, which, for half a century, had been in constant insurrection.
— from Josephus by Norman Bentwich

The wretched creature advanced, leaping on the stones, shouting and breaking forth into loud bursts of laughter, followed by a crowd of ragamuffins making a noise like that of the infernal regions.
— from Constantinople, v. 1 (of 2) by Edmondo De Amicis