gil iskáwut n girl scout.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Mr. Holliard advises me to have my father come up to town, for he doubts else in the country he will never find ease, for, poor man, his grief is now grown so great upon him that he is never at ease, so I will have him up at Easter.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And if duties of any kind may be laid without a violation of that liberty, it is evident that the extent must depend on legislative discretion, respecting the liberty of the press, will give it no greater security than it will have without them.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

A grin is not generally supposed to be a respectful thing; yet Anne suddenly felt that if she had not yet won Anthony’s liking she had, somehow or other, won his respect.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Gonna is now Gunn , Serl has given the very common Searle , and Wicga is Wigg .
— from The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley

TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The Secretary of State has submitted to me a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant, which has been delivered to him, and which is in the following words: "Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to communicate to this House, if not, in his judgment, incompatible with the public interest, why our Minister in New Granada has not presented his credentials to the actual government of that country; also the reasons for which Senor Murillo is not recognized by the United States as the diplomatic representative of the Mosquera government of that country; also, what negotiations have been had, if any, with General Herran as the representative of Ospina's government in New Granada since it went into existence.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

"The girl is not guilty, she was confused," said the kind-hearted merchant.
— from The Awakening (The Resurrection) by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A friendly god is not generally supposed to bestow his favours gratuitously; it is hardly probable, then, that he should meddle with matters of social morality out of sheer kindliness and of his own accord.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

But the poppy is painted glass ; it never glows so brightly as when the sun shines through it.
— from Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin

“Graeme is not going,” said Rose.
— from Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

He had a good master, he wanted not good books, nor good instruction, nor good sermons, nor good examples, no nor good fellow-servants neither; but all would not do.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

If any of my American readers will try to imagine a whole political party, great in numbers, greater still in wealth, station and influence, suddenly performing just such a turn-round as the "New York Herald" accomplished at a certain early crisis of the late civil war, he will have some idea of the marvellous and unprecedented feat which was executed by the English Tories, when, renouncing all their time-honored traditions, watchwords and principles, they changed a limited and oligarchical franchise into household suffrage.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

What! not good books, nor good instructions, nor good sermons, nor good examples, nor good fellow-servants, nor nothing do him good!
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan