[54] of the purest and most eloquent composition, may sometimes be seen another “article” [
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Nobody but my enemies ever calls me Suky Snobbs.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Miss Sullivan, who is an excellent critic, made suggestions at many points in the course of composition and revision.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Towards the evening comes Mr. Spong to see me, whose discourse about several things I proposed to him was very good, better than I have had with any body a good while.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The French literature of the eighteenth century may serve as an example.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

45 Quorum autem prima aetas propter humilitatem et obscuritatem in hominum ignoratione versatur, ii, [207] simul ac iuvenes esse coeperunt, magna spectare et ad ea rectis studiis debent contendere: quod eo firmiore animo facient, quia non modo non invidetur illi aetati, verum etiam favetur.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But Lazarus was silent, and the Emperor continued more severely: “You are not wanted here.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I could have given them my whole life to animadvert upon, with a certainty, notwithstanding all my faults and weaknesses, and my want of aptitude to support the lightest yoke, of their finding me in every situation a just and good man, without bitterness, hatred, or jealousy, ready to acknowledge my errors, and still more prompt to forget the injuries I received from others; seeking all my happiness in love, friendship, and affection, and in everything carrying my sincerity even to imprudence and the most incredible disinterestedness.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Silence, everybody!" commanded Mrs. Stratton.
— from The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel by John Miller

Such an event may cause much evil, create much social confusion, and do grave injury to the nation, but the political society may survive it; the sovereign remains in the plenitude of his rights, as competent to restore government as he was originally to institute it.
— from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

Supposing this account to be correct then, undoubtedly, the English Church must share the blame of neglecting Norfolk Island along with the government, and it is not the wish of the writer of these pages to deny the applicability of the prophet’s confession to ourselves: “O God, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against Thee.”
— from Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants by W. (William) Pridden

Nella replied, as firmly as she could, though her hand shook violently with excitement, could Miss Spencer but have observed it.
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett

The absorption of Americans in business affairs, and the free hand which the structure and ideals of American life granted them, had made business competition a fierce and merciless affair; while at the same time the fluid nature of American economic conditions made success very precarious.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

It looks as if the World Economic Conference may soon adjourn, mouthing jeers at old Uncle Sam who is generally referred to as Uncle Shylock."
— from Yesterday House by Fritz Leiber

"How else can mother see how I am lost?"
— from Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare