I made you carry me, over and over again, when you should have made me walk; and I often drove you in harness, when you would much rather have sat down and read your news-paper: didn't I?' 'Sometimes, sometimes.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

When you were at the grave-side, and felt awed and silenced by the coffin, thinking that some day people would look down and read your name, He called.
— from Broken Bread, from an Evangelist's Wallet by Thomas Champness

The railways pay interest and principal in money, with which you pay your national debt, and redeem your notes.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

"I will never forget," said Mr. Miller, "how Mrs. Dozier took her place at the table that morning, tapped for order, and in a kind, but firm, tone said: 'Young gentlemen and young ladies, as a teacher only, I can not criticise the propriety of your writing notes to each other when out of school; but as your teacher, with full authority in school, I desire and request you neither to write nor send notes to any one during school hours.
— from History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

I was disturbed at reading your name so often in the papers, at those meetings, where the division of everything is advocated, the death of religion and of the family, and I do not know what follies besides.
— from The Shadow of the Cathedral by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

You run, like all possessed, until you catch your car, and then you sit down and read your newspaper.
— from Threads of Grey and Gold by Myrtle Reed