'No harm at all in this particular case, perhaps,’ replied Mr Codlin; ‘but the principle’s a dangerous one, and you’re too free I tell you.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the Blue, has hit strange victims: Hebert Pere Duchene, Bibliopolist Momoro, Clerk Vincent, General Ronsin; high Cordelier Patriots, redcapped Magistrates of Paris, Worshippers of Reason, Commanders of Revolutionary Army!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

‘Her uncle told me she had been considered pretty,’ remarked Madame Mantalini.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

To my father’s, and with him to Mr. Starling’s to drink our morning draft, and there I told him how I would have him speak to my uncle Robert, when he comes thither, concerning my buying of land, that I could pay ready money L600 and the rest by L150 per annum, to make up as much as will buy L50 per annum, which I do, though I not worth above L500 ready money, that he may think me to be a greater saver than I am.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Guarienti and my brother left Venice for Rome, where Jean remained in the studio of the celebrated painter Raphael Mengs, whom we shall meet again hereafter.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

H2 anchor EPISODE 18—RETURN TO NAPLES ROME—NAPLES—BOLOGNA H2 anchor CHAPTER VIII Cardinal Passianei—The Pope—Masiuccia—I Arrive At Naples IMG Cardinal Passionei received me in a large hall where he was writing.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In February, 1838, on meeting her at a charity ball given for the benefit of the former civil pensioners, Rosalie made an appointment with her for the Opera ball, when she told her former rival the secret of her manoeuvres against Madame de Rhetore, and of her conduct as regards the attorney.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

In a charm of similar import we find:— “Ho, Crown Prince (Raja Muda) with your Speckled Princess (Pŭtri Dandi), Rouse you quickly (from your slumbers)
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Sir Charles particularly requested my influence.
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

They chatted pleasantly round my boat, though each sentence that fell from their lips was emphasized by its accompanying oath.
— from Four Months in a Sneak-Box A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

And all this arose out of Parliament's hesitating admission that certain predatory robbers must be restrained, and Earl Moira's wise interpretation of that scant assent into action which, after two weary years, settled the great territorial question of India as only it could be settled; that is to say, as the Earl (afterwards Lord Hastings) phrases it: "by the establishment of universal tranquillity under the guarantee and supremacy of England."
— from India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Webster Steel

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— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1953 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Although nations boast of material wealth and manufacturing plants, their most valuable assets are their men and women of merit, and their greatest factories are their institutions of learning, which convert priceless raw material into a finished product of inestimable worth.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

Political parties and leaders: major party - Korean Workers' Party or KWP [KIM Jong Il]; minor parties - Chondoist Chongu Party [RYU Mi Yong] (under KWP control), Social Democratic Party [KIM Yong Dae] (under KWP control)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

“Girls!” cried Peggy, radiantly, “my poem is in the Monthly !
— from Peggy Parsons, a Hampton Freshman by Annabel Sharp

I do not know a man who ever followed what his conscience pronounced right more faithfully, who was truer to the better traditions of the old south, and who was a more devoted soldier in the brothers’ war, nor do I know another who now draws from every class in his community more respect for real manhood and honesty.
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed