In the city of Boston I have rarely called upon an individual for funds that I have not been thanked for calling, usually before I could get an opportunity to thank the donor for the money.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
That is, of course, unavoidable, being in Chancery.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
"It was cruelly unfortunate, but I could not let her risk her precious safety over that confounded path!"
— from Thurston of Orchard Valley by Harold Bindloss
I can bear to be considered unfeminine, but I cannot endure to think of myself as inhuman.
— from A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes
It was a pretty trying interview, as you can understand; but I couldn't help wondering what the poor old boy would say if he dreamt what sort of pressure I've been applying on his behalf!
— from Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
That is, of course, unavoidable; being in Chancery.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV by Various
The whole country between Shanghae and Soo-chow is low, marshy, and cut up by innumerable creeks, canals, dykes, and lakes, the only roads being a few narrow causeways built along the sides of the principal creeks; therefore, whenever the garrison of a stockade was driven out, their only line of retreat was along the bank of a creek, up which a steamer could follow them for miles, and pour in deadly discharges of grape and canister at a distance of only a few feet.
— from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume II) by Augustus F. Lindley
So it only remains to explain to the town That a rainstorm came up before I could come down.
— from The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce
Frying Pan in Islington, Mealman,” which, considered in connexion with pancakes, one can understand; but it certainly looks out of place at the door of Samuel Wadsell, bookseller at the Golden Frying Pan , in Leadenhall Street, 1680.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten
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