Matthew was certainly acknowledged as an O’Neill when he was made Baron of Dungannon and heir to the earldom, but Shane explained the difficulty by saying that his father was a gentleman, and never denied any son that was sworn on him, and that he had plenty of them.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

Ma had been waiting for me to get a new dress and she was so tickled when I said I would go in my old one.
— from Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day by Margaret Penrose

From his girdle Arbaces now drew a small ring, holding three or four short but strong keys.
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Really, I think it has been a splendid paying thing to do; pork chops are high, you know, and I really feel I am off to the good about nine dollars and six bits worth of bacon and flour right now on this deal.
— from Hunting with the Bow & Arrow by Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) Pope

I have heard from her and he is better, thank God, and not dead, as so many thought, for he does so much work that no one thought that he could get over it.
— from A Slave Girl's Story Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. by Kate Drumgoold

What you call crankiness in old people, so trying to the younger generations, does not arise from natural hatefulness of disposition and a released congenital selfishness, but from atrophying glands, and, no doubt, a subtle rebellion against nature for consigning men to ineptitude when they should be entering upon their best period of usefulness, and philosophical as well as active enjoyment of life.
— from Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: adequate system of cable, microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, radiotelephone communication stations, and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 7, shortwave 6 (1998) Radios: 208,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 4 (plus five low-power repeaters) (1997)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

French Polynesia: general assessment: NA domestic: NA international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) Gabon: general assessment: NA domestic: adequate system of cable, microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, radiotelephone communication stations, and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

New Caledonia general assessment: NA domestic: a submarine cable network connection between New Caledonia and Australia, completed in 2007, is expected to significantly increase network capacity and improve high-speed connectivity and access to international networks international: country code - 687; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2007)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It had struck her suddenly that afternoon that Jack was going away next day, and she was aware she could not contemplate the indefinite to-morrow and to-morrow without him.
— from Dodo: A Detail of the Day. Volumes 1 and 2 by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson