He had thought himself, so long as nobody knew, the most disinterested person in the world, carrying his concentrated burden, his perpetual suspense, ever so quietly, holding his tongue about it, giving others no glimpse of it nor of its effect upon his life, asking of them no allowance and only making on his side all those that were asked.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

The question we have to consider for the immediate welfare of those States of the Union is the question of government or no government; of social order and all the peaceful industries and the happiness that belongs to it, or a return to barbarism.
— from U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses by United States. Presidents

I saw a group of nurses gazing over each other's shoulders at a blue cheque.
— from Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The following ministers were engaged on that occasion, viz.:— Messrs. Hillyard, of Bedford; Greathead, of Newport; Grundy, of Lutterworth; Carver, of Wellingborough; Summers, of Wellingborough; Gill, of Market Harborough; Davis, of Wigston; Gardner, of Kilsby.
— from Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

The amiable desire, however, of paying off old scores due to the captain, annihilated every other feeling; and when the prisoner, on being asked whether he was guilty or not guilty of the felony laid to his charge, instead of answering, cast his imploring eyes upon me, as though I knew more of the business than himself, I could not refrain from advancing towards the table occupied by the counsel and solicitors, and asking permission of the bench to give my valuable assistance to the prisoner.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

You'll settle down for keeps, th' next time you settle down, Tim Perkins, gold or no gold; or you'll do your chasin' alone," and she turned and climbed back into one of the wagons, not at all moved by her big husband's enthusiasm.
— from The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 by Everett McNeil

In two deeds of sale, however, of the date 1441 and 1442, entered in the Salic book of the church of 125 St. Thomas at Strasburg, he is thus expressly named: “ Joannes dictus Gensfleisch alias nuncupatus Gutenberg de Moguncia, Argentinæ commorans ;” that is, “John Gænsfleisch, otherwise named Gutemberg, of Mentz, residing at Strasburg.”
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

Guilty or not guilty?; or, The ordeal of fire.
— from The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels Given to the New York Public Library By Dr. Frank P. O'Brien by New York Public Library

The Clerk of Arraigns then arose, and demanded of the accused— "Prisoner at the bar, are you guilty or not guilty of the crimes with which you stand indicted?"
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

“So go on, now; get off of my property.”
— from Silver and Gold: A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Dane Coolidge