I dare say poor chatelaines had to do that in time of famine, when their lands had been pillaged."
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

But from all this it by no means follows that the dependent spiritual person can have no knowledge of the independent spiritual Person.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Governor Altgelt, of Illinois, was called upon to restore order in the city, but before he did so President Cleveland, having been officially informed that the movement of the mails was obstructed by violence in the streets of Chicago, ordered a small body of troops to that city to break the blockade.
— from The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

“Of course I do,” said Philippa, compelling herself to speak lightly, “but we have oceans of time before us to talk over everything in, and you have not too much time for a good night; it is getting very late, and if we go on talking you will never get to sleep.”
— from Philippa by Mrs. Molesworth

And, the devil still prompting Clifford, he answered: ``Because I whistled the Carmagnole?
— from In the Quarter by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

“Are you submitting to the discipline, Sister Penitentia?” came her voice.
— from The Lamp of Fate by Margaret Pedler

I do so pity Constance Hull.
— from Mark Gildersleeve: A Novel by John S. Sauzade

“Did Swart Piet come here yesterday?”
— from Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

De Saussure probably contented himself with a general statement of what he believed to [Pg 298] be the substantial cause of the motion.
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall