The assurances your Excellency has been pleased to give us of your friendly dispositions, leave us no doubt you will have faithfully executed a regulation so essential to harmony and good neighborhood.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

—Those who marry for wealth often get what they marry and nothing else; for rich girls besides being generally destitute of both industry and economy, are generally extravagant in their expenditures, and require servants enough to dissipate a fortune.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

Daigremont alone remained absolutely independent, a circumstance which at times disturbed Saccard, although the amiable fellow continued treating him in a very charming way, inviting him to his entertainments, and readily signing everything that was submitted to him with the good grace of a Parisian sceptic, who as long as he makes money considers that everything is going on all right.
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

'I had rather cut down expenses all round,' said Emmeline, 'than have our home upset in this way.
— from The Paying Guest by George Gissing

No gaudy tinsel: all was flowing light; Though not superb, yet pleasing to the sight; A neckerchief, where much should be concealed, Was made so narrow,—beauties half revealed; Beneath is shade—what words can ne'er express; And Reynold saw enough the rest to guess.
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by Jean de La Fontaine

They managed to escape and reached safety ere they were discovered.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

I saw him in a sudden flash as a cunning, cruel bird of prey, a gorged, drab vulture with beady eyes, a resemblance so extraordinary that I wondered I had never remarked it before.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill