No one who has not long considered the subject can have a notion how much this dependence on the Bank of England is fixed in our national habits.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

"Oh, well," said Jimmy with some embarrassment, "I feel I ought not to urge you now.
— from Northwest! by Harold Bindloss

How I fell in with old Martin, early in February, is of no moment here.
— from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth by George Sturt

But one expects a man's foes to misjudge him, and even to libel him deliberately; a good deal of their enmity, in fact, is often no more than a product of their uneasy consciousness that they have dealt unfairly with him; one is always most bitter, not toward the author of one's wrongs, but toward the victim of one's wrongs.
— from The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

I should be glad to peruse some of these curious Coins, especially if found in or near Palmyra : but I am inclinable to believe that his true Name was Æranes Waballathus (as was one of his Progenitors, in Inscription Pag.
— from Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3 containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal Society by Royal Society (Great Britain)