If nobody at San Salvatore had ever heard of her, if for a whole month she could shed herself, get right away from everything connected with herself, be allowed really to forget the clinging and the clogging and all the noise, why, perhaps she might make something of herself after all.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Tomatoes are not in good repute among food experts in view of the small amount of calories which they contain—only about 100 to the pound—and are regarded with suspicion amounting almost to superstition by mothers and nurses as a food for children.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Hearken not to the unnatural voice which tells you that the people of America, knit together as they are by so many cords of affection, can no longer live together as members of the same family; can no longer continue the mutual guardians of their mutual happiness; can no longer be fellow citizens of one great, respectable, and flourishing empire.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

A note by Dr. Smith in Gibbon ( Rise and Fall , etc., iii, 294) shows how the Tatars became accidentally named Tartars, through an exclamation of St. Louis of France, although it must be admitted that according to other authors, the use of the word Tartar, in Western Europe, is of earlier date; and Genebrard states ( Lib.
— from The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 by Johannes Schiltberger

The United States sent, in honor of this event, a special embassy to Caracas, where the cordial reception and generous hospitality shown it were most gratifying as a further proof of the good relations and friendship existing between that country and the United States.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

It is not expedient to run the risk of war, which may give Rome a further excuse against you."
— from John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

Fox was a solemn, reverent, absorbed man; a great reader and fluent expounder of the Scriptures, but fanatical and superstitious; a believer in witchcraft, and in his power to detect witches.
— from English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée

In time past in Lincolne (as the fame goeth) there haue beene two and fiftie parish churches, and good record appeareth for eight and thirtie: but now if there be foure and twentie it is all.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

I have accepted the situation, however, and with the few dollars in ready money he left me, and my sewing, I have managed to so far give Ralph a fair education.
— from Ralph of the Roundhouse; Or, Bound to Become a Railroad Man by Allen Chapman

He was quite happy drifting from town to town abroad, and it was the life I had been brought up to, because my grandfather ran away from England, too.
— from Mummery: A Tale of Three Idealists by Gilbert Cannan

In spite of all this, some are inclined to think that the States of Brabant are getting ready a fresh embassy, which will shortly be sent to arrange the terms of a reconciliation with Alençon.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

Most of the writers of the Paston Letters were, though in some cases of good rank and fairly educated, persons entirely unacademic in character, and their society was that of the last trouble and convulsion through which the Early Middle Ages struggled into the Renaissance, so long delayed with us.
— from A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury

In time past in Lincoln (as the same goeth) there have been two-and-fifty parish churches, and good record appeareth for eight-and-thirty; but now, if there be four-and-twenty, it is all.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison