See p. 17 .] 2. (1) A logician, who eats pork-chops for supper, will probably lose money; (2) A gambler, whose appetite is not ravenous, will probably lose money; (3) A man who is depressed, having lost money and being likely to lose more, always rises at 5 a.m.; (4) A man, who neither gambles nor eats pork-chops for supper, is sure to have a ravenous appetite; (5) A lively man, who goes to bed before 4 a.m., had better take to cab-driving; (6) A man with a ravenous appetite, who has not lost money and does not rise at 5 a.m., always eats pork-chops for supper; (7) A logician, who is in danger of losing money, had better take to cab-driving; (8) An earnest gambler, who is depressed though he has not lost money, is in no danger of losing any; (9) A man, who does not gamble, and whose appetite is not ravenous, is always lively; pg188 (10) A lively logician, who is really in earnest, is in no danger of losing money; (11) A man with a ravenous appetite has no need to take to cab-driving, if he is really in earnest; (12) A gambler, who is depressed though in no danger of losing money, sits up till 4 a.m. (13) A man, who has lost money and does not eat pork-chops for supper, had better take to cab-driving, unless he gets up at 5 a.m. (14) A gambler, who goes to bed before 4 a.m., need not take to cab-driving, unless he has a ravenous appetite; (15) A man with a ravenous appetite, who is depressed though in no danger of losing, is a gambler.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

We recognized each other simultaneously, and hands were grasped as warmly as if no coldness had ever existed between us, and no allusion was made to any.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

It was an ancient custom of the Spanish Government, and was an ideal nucleus of administration for the new government.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

de Sévigné's are to her daughter, Mme. de Grignan), and which are in no respect inferior to those of the French lady in sprightly wit, while in the variety of their subjects they are far superior, as giving the account of Turkish scenery and manners, and also of those of other countries which her husband visited on various diplomatic missions, while Mme.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole

His wife, who stood much in awe of him, durst not reply, but her mother bustled up to her support, with arms disposed as if they were about to be a-kimbo at the next reply.—“I gied them to an acquaintance of mine, Gibbie Girder; and what about it now?”
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

In an hour of intense misery, caused by a girl who had won my very soul, and whose words and letters made me believe she would become my wife the month of my graduation, and who, as I now believe, was then engaged to the man she married in January, I threw myself away.
— from Found in the Philippines: The Story of a Woman's Letters by Charles King

So if you will give a fair word for a fair sword, and pledge your promise, with hand and glove, good and well; and if not, I will carry back Caliburn to those who sent it.”
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

"The tea and tobacco are nearly gone, and we are in need of powder and ball," Sishetakushin answered.
— from Ungava Bob: A Winter's Tale by Dillon Wallace

"If we did," says he, "that was the nearest I came to getting acquainted with anyone in New York.
— from Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford

Sainte Croix there got acquainted with an Italian named Exili, who understood the art of preparing poison, and from whom he learnt it.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

And from that moment Rome is theirs, Rome where their general so long commands, whence so long go forth the directions for the obscure tactics which are blindly followed by their innumerable army, whose skilful organisation covers the globe as with an iron network hidden by the velvet of hands expert in dealing gently with poor suffering humanity.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

We, at least, should be naturally inclined to think, not only as far as names, but things also, are concerned, that the Greeks could hardly have begun their revolution under better auspices; since they have endeavored to render applicable to themselves the general principles of our form of government, as well as its name.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple