In the Philippines an immense variety of rice grows and in the World’s Fair at Paris, in 1889, Señor D. Regino García, of Manila, presented a unique collection of 147 varieties.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The you tell us to go Down, we will go and See our grand father & here & receve his Gifts, and think fully that our nation will be covered after our return, our people will look for us with the same impatience that our Grand father looks for your return, to Give him If I am going to See my grand father, many bad nations on the road, I am not afraid to Die for the good of my people (all Cried around him.)
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

What's the use of our wasting another year?" Mrs. Manson Mingott screwed up her little mouth into a grimace of mimic prudery and twinkled at him through malicious lids.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

They asked a sequin in advance, I gave it them, and promised the other to the man who would get on my poop and help me to make the point.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And that has especial reference to gentlemen of my profession, and has no reference to a man seeking a divorce.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

“A dainty song,” said Wamba, when they had finished their carol, “and I swear by my bauble, a pretty moral!—I used to sing it with Gurth, once my playfellow, and now, by the grace of God and his master, no less than a freemen; and we once came by the cudgel for being so entranced by the melody, that we lay in bed two hours after sunrise, singing the ditty betwixt sleeping and waking—my bones ache at thinking of the tune ever since.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Lastly, I wrote to my partner, acknowledging his industry in the improving the plantation, and his integrity in increasing the stock of the works; giving him instructions for his future government of my part, according to the powers I had left with my old patron, to whom I desired him to send whatever became due to me, till he should hear from me more particularly; assuring him that it was my intention not only to come to him, but to settle myself there for the remainder of my life.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Then to the lady, with the lore Of eloquence, he spoke once more: “Thou scarce,” he cried, “hast heard aright The glories of my power and might.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

His rank in life made such an action perfectly gratuitous on my part, and to many people perhaps perfectly unpardonable.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"Do you mean that that gentle old man——" "Petrie, a certain M. Sokoloff, a Russian gentleman whose acquaintance I made in Mandalay, related to me an episode that took place at the house of the mandarin Ki-Ming in Canton.
— from The Hand of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

This interview was conducted with Oswald for the purpose of displaying to him the blow-ups of photographs showing him holding a rifle and a pistol which were seized as a result of the search warrant for the garage of Mrs. Paine at 2515 West 5th Street, Irving, Texas.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

When he had gotten all that Italy could give, or more properly all he could absorb, his intent was to follow his heart and go straight back to Flanders.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard

All things seemed to be going on most prosperously, and I felt quite happy, when one morning, as I was overlooking some workmen who were employed about my house, I was accosted by a constable, who informed me that he was sent to request my immediate appearance before a neighbouring bench of magistrates.
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow

Louise saw the group of moving picture actors at one side.
— from Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper: A Story of Cape Cod by James A. Cooper

When we had passed through Epworth, we rattled on faster, and in half an hour arrived at the gates opening into the grounds of Melwood Priory, a house which had had many tenants since the Carthusians were driven out of it, and all unlucky.
— from The MS. in a Red Box by John A. (John Arthur) Hamilton

He survived Macaulay too—an early contributor of whom we shall have more to say—and though he was past eighty at the death of the historian, he was alert still, and his brain vagrantly active; but the days of his early glory and fame—when the young blusterer bolstered up Reform, and slew the giants of musty privilege and sent “the schoolmaster abroad,” and antagonized slavery, were gone; [39] so, too, were those [109] palmy times when he made the courts at Westminster ring with his championship of that poor Queen (who, whatever her demerits—and they were many—was certainly abominably maltreated by a husband far worse than she); times when the populace who espoused her cause shouted bravos to Harry Brougham—times when he was the best known and most admired man in England; all these, and his chancellorship, and his wordy triumphs in the House of Lords, were far behind him, and the inevitable loss of place and power fretted him grievously.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 4: The Later Georges to Victoria by Donald Grant Mitchell

I think he felt that, if this was known, it would also become known that he went to Russia and the circumstances of that, and he felt, and this was a sheer guess on my part, and I judge that he felt this would make his job tenure unsure.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission