But then, you see, he might have returned in the storm, all wet, with no one to see to him; and it was a long exposure for baby, who was croupy and ailing.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Then, perhaps, we would be reconciled and drink to our everlasting friendship; but what was most bitter and humiliating for me was that I knew even then, knew fully and for certain, that I needed nothing of all this really, that I did not really want to crush, to subdue, to attract them, and that I did not care a straw really for the result, even if I did achieve it.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

we are in search of a new market wir überbrücken die Zeitspanne we bridge the time gap wir verkaufen nur an Wiederverkäufer we sell to the trade only wir verkaufen zum besten Preis we sell at the best price we can obtain wir wenden sie täglich an we use them every day wir wenden uns an die Versicherer we will take the matter up with the insurers wir werden an der Messe teilnehmen we will attend the fair wir werden auf Raten kaufen we will pay by instalments wir werden das Nettoerlös überweisen we will remit the net proceeds wir werden den Kauf verschieben we will postpone the purchase wir werden die Messe besuchen we will visit the fair wir werden uns um eine Fläche bewerben we will apply for exhibition space
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

It carries an effect far beyond what was originally the intention of marks of distinction.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Then, perhaps, we would be reconciled and drink to our everlasting friendship; but what was most bitter and most humiliating for me was that I knew even then, knew fully and for certain, that I needed nothing of all this really, that I did not really want to crush, to subdue, to attract them, and that I did not care a straw really for the result, even if I did achieve it.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"An egg for breakfast: well, what of it?"
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The military portions of this work, however, must have been written long afterwards, in the end of the sixth or the beginning of the seventh century at the earliest; for Belisarius, who was born in 505, is mentioned in the sixty-sixth chapter.
— from Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress by H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime

'It is not true!--it is a lie--he never took them--he never gave them to me,' cried Gwen, her courage, oddly enough, failing before what was to her an absolutely novel and unfounded accusation.
— from The Potter's Thumb by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Every face beamed with wondrous satisfaction.
— from A Modern Cinderella by Amanda M. Douglas

After that we moved a long way down an' took [41] up a position on the Murra-Murra run beside the Sydney road, where the coaches passed in the night; an' me mother made hot coffee for the passengers, an' we drove a roarin' trade, had to git girls in to help, an' put up a large accommodation house, and respectable people always made to us" (the old head went high and the eyes flashed) "because we was clean, temperance people, there never was no D.T.'s or sly grog where we had the rule.
— from Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

—What a tiresome diligence-drive we have had from Coblentz here through endless forests, but we were well repaid as we descended upon Limbourg.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

Acton and Jack Vance especially fairly boiled with wrath.
— from The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs by Harold Avery

I hardly know what sort of order to adopt in this my second and last epistle from Bayeux; which will be semi-bibliomaniacal and semi-archaeological: and sit down, almost at random, to impart such intelligence as my journal and my memory supply.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

The additions now made by the publication of Hamilton's private papers alone, and more especially when they are read in connection with those of other distinguished public men, prove those impressions to have been well founded, and to an extent far beyond what was even imagined in those days.
— from Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren