I was never given a more cordial hearing anywhere.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

In company with Giovanni Gradenigo and Marco Cornaro, he assembled the Council of Ten at San Salvador; and there, in less than three hours, measures were concerted for the thwarting of all the proceedings of the conspirators.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

Those acts will be remembered in all their years to come, for you are planting everlasting plants that may pass onto a hundred generations and make children happy a thousand years from now.
— from Evening Round-Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by William Crosbie Hunter

In the mean time I received (on August 3) the following despatch from General Grant approving my course: "HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, "WAR DEPT., WASHINGTON, D. C., "August 3, 1866—5 p.m.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

They drove home in a taxi, and she caressed him and soothed him and told him he was the dearest, kindest, gentlest and most considering husband any girl could have the luck to find.
— from Old Mole Being the Surprising Adventures in England of Herbert Jocelyn Beenham, M.A., Sometime Sixth-Form Master at Thrigsby Grammar School in the County of Lancaster by Gilbert Cannan

There wor some trouble ’bout it; the Lord Herbert, who’s governor at Monnerth, claimin’ him as his prisoner.
— from No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

He had thought to find this young woman a dependent, timid creature, who would be very grateful and would turn to him for protection, just like many another with whom he had come in contact in his rovings; but this pale girl made it very clear to him by a glance, that he was nothing but a guide and must conduct himself as such.
— from The Northern Light by E. Werner

I forgot my lost glasses and my cold hands and my wet knees waiting for the song that I knew was coming.
— from Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville

[111] On feeding horses with pulped roots, Mr. Slater, of Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, says:— I give all my cart horses a bushel per day of pulped mangel, mixed with straw and corn-chaff.
— from The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir