These men who bore the weight of public affairs and of such a struggle as that with the Medici (not to speak of contentions with their own party) found time and strength to bear the burden of a vast business and all its speculations, also of banks and their complications, which the multiplicity of coinages and their falsification rendered even more difficult than it is in our day.
— from Catherine De Medici by Honoré de Balzac

FRANK RICHARDSON ENGLAND, M. D., C. M.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Were your own friends rich enough, my dear, before their bankruptcy, to give you such an education themselves?
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

The loss of only two fingers upon the right hand, or a broken wrist, may disqualify an operator from continuing in the only work in which she is skilled and make her struggle for respectability even more difficult.
— from A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams

"So much the more painful," said the young man; "the hussy we could not win is always the fairest—I part from renown even more despairingly than from youth."
— from A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick

On the night of April 17th, 1861, I was awakened out of a sound sleep about 11 o'clock by three men, who requested me to accompany them to Jeffersonville, a small town on the St. Francis river, eight miles distant.
— from Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South by William G. Stevenson

Courage, reader!—Our Constitutional Historian makes this farther reflection:— "English moneys, desperate Russian intrigues, Treaties made and Treaties broken—If instead of Pragmatic Sanction with eleven Potentates guaranteeing, Maria Theresa had at this time had 200,000 soldiers and a full treasury (as Prince Eugene used to advise the late Kaiser), how different might it have been with her, and with the whole world that fell upon one another's throats in her quarrel!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

I have just been making it tidy, for we had a little ratting last night, one of my dogs against Sir James Collette's, fifty rats each; my dog beat him by three quarters of a minute.”
— from Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty