There is no difference between "u" and "u" with a breve, and there is no way to determine (without prior knowledge of the word(s) involved, and sometimes a bit of context) whether an "h" following one of those other five letters is really the second half of a diacritical pair, or just an "h" that happened to find itself next to one of them.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

“We have no pretext for leaving it, remember that,” said Stapylton, smiling.
— from Barrington. Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever

All my future lies in redeeming that silver, which is worth five thousand francs and is pledged for three thousand.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

[Pg 16] The legislature of Massachusetts in the year 1760 passed the following laws in relation to Sunday and to the proper observance of Saturday evening:— "Whereas it is the Duty of all Perſons, upon the Lord's-Day carefully to apply themſelves publickly and privately to Religion and Piety, the Prophanation of the Lord's-Day is highly offenſive to Almighty God; of evil Example and tends to the Grief and Diſturbance of all pious and religiouſly diſpoſed persons.
— from The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

Societies for the prevention of cruelty to [Pg 82] animals are admirable and irreproachable when they defend animals against human savagery: for example, when they prevent carters from lashing into ribbons the skin of the miserable horses under their charge; or when they put down the practice of harnessing a horse to a cart too heavily loaded; or when they interdict cock-fighting and bull-baiting.
— from The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Charles Richet

The first naval lord, the second naval lord and the junior naval lord are responsible to the first lord in relation to so much of the business concerning the personnel of the navy and the movements and condition of the fleet as is confided to them, and the additional naval lord or controller is responsible in the same way for the material of the navy; while the parliamentary secretary has charge of finance and some other business, and the civil lord of all shore works—i.e. docks, buildings, &c.—and the permanent secretary of special duties.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

“Mr. Craggs, Sir,” observed Snitchey, “didn’t find life, I regret to say, as easy to have and to hold as his theory made it out, or he would have been among us now.
— from The Battle of Life: A Love Story by Charles Dickens

The information was brought to me by Black Peter himself, who, having secured an afternoon’s liberty, which he broke by coming aboard about ten-thirty instead of at six o’clock p.m., presented himself—considerably the worse for liquor, I regret to say—at my cabin door, beaming hilariously all over his sable countenance as he stuttered— “We–e–ll, M–mistah Cour’-nay, I g–got him a’ las’, sah!”
— from A Pirate of the Caribbees by Harry Collingwood

The line is of very stout sinew braid, and has an eye neatly spliced in the end for looping it round the shaft.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch

This situation could not stand the tension for long; I realized that sooner or later the game must have an abrupt ending.
— from The Fate of a Crown by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum