"Books should, like business, entertain the day," replies Usk: "so you said, at least, just now.
— from A House-Party, Don Gesualdo, and A Rainy June by Ouida
They sent for a doctor, and John Dory rang up Scotland Yard.
— from Peter Ruff and the Double Four by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
While we were at lunch—at which the officers behaved with great devotion, and a disinterestedness remarkably unlike something you
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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