Of the later generations of phoneticians I know little.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

If Germany raises the money required in her own way, the Commission cannot order that it shall be raised in some other way; if Germany offers payment in kind, the Commission may accept such payment, but, except as specified in the Treaty itself, the Commission cannot require such a payment."
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

See now if thy story of the God of Peace is known in any way to her.”
— from The White Shield by Bertram Mitford

Your men of promptitude without genius or power, including knowledge and will, are those who present the wedge the wrong way.
— from Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers by John Brown

‘Why, you see,’ said Jonas, ‘her way always being to make game of people, I know she’ll laugh, or pretend to—I know that, beforehand.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

We may add the general belief, that a remnant of those saved were cast on shore, and from their descendants we still can learn even the modes of government once practised in Kylestafeen.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 46, May 15, 1841 by Various

The good old pioneer (I knew him well) asked a good, old-fashioned Methodist blessing over the meat, giving thanks for the bountiful supply of the many good things of the world vouchsafed to him and his neighbors, and thereupon in true pioneer hospitality, cut a generous sized piece of the roast for his guest, the real owner of the meat.
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

“Get out, Peaches, I know your voice,” said Joe, not quite sure whether he did or not.
— from Baseball Joe on the School Nine; or, Pitching for the Blue Banner by Lester Chadwick