They are both living in Chicago enjoying excellent health at the age of eighty-eight.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Otherwise the solution is correct enough, each member being, as required, a knight's move from the preceding number, and the original corner cell vacant.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

She is wretched poor; and but ordinary favoured; and we fain to lay out seven or eight pounds worth of clothes upon her back, which, methinks, do go against my heart; and I do not think I can ever esteem her as I could have done another that had come fine and handsome; and which is more, her voice, for want of use, is so furred, that it do not at present please me; but her manner of singing is such, that I shall, I think, take great pleasure in it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Upon my word I cannot exactly explain the matter, Darcy must speak for himself."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

They were of the Finnish race; part of the nation, in the fifth century, moved westward, and reached the modern Bulgaria; part remained along the Volga, which is called Etel, Etil, or Athil, in all the Tartar languages, but from the Bulgarians, the Volga.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Where an experience is complex, each element of the total object has had the other elements for its past contiguous associates.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Scribonius Largus ( Comp. liii) mentions an excavator: Itaque cum etiam exesus est aliqua ex parte, tum non suadeo protinus tollendum, sed excidendum scalpro medicinali, qua cavatus est, quod sine ullo fit dolore, reliqua enim solida pars eius et speciem et usum dentis praestabit.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

“Persuasion is not at command; but pardon me, if I cannot even endeavour to persuade him.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The pupil is advised, generally, to write for wood-wind in its normal order of distribution, to take heed that each particular chord is composed entirely either of duplicated or non-duplicated parts, (except in certain cases resulting from progression), to use the methods of crossing and enclosure of timbres with full knowledge of what he is doing, and finally to concentrate his attention on close part-writing.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

The European portion of Usenet is called EUNET (European Unix NET).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Whether or no Gérard was sufficiently recovered to meet his friend at the Austrian embassy on the evening named, we do not know, nor does it concern us; but he is certainly enjoying excellent health now, and is no less charming than before his extraordinary adventure.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

It was a body of cruelty so horrible that I am confident no normal person exists who, once aware of it, could ever enjoy looking on at any trained-animal turn.
— from Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

As for the other servants in the castle, I cannot even enumerate them; I do not know the number of musicians, cooks, guards, Cossacks, and waiting men and women.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

"He wears goloshes in damp weather, his hat down on the nape of his neck; is in an agony of mind about exposures, draughts, and currents of air; makes his horse shy every time he attempts to mount, and they go round in circles, eyeing each other suspiciously till a groom comes; and when he does achieve his saddle, he drops his whip or his gloves, or twists his stirrup-leather.
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant

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— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

I can explain everything satisfactorily, however.
— from Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various

The religious, the original mode in which man becomes objective to himself, is (as is clearly enough, explained in this work) to be distinguished from the mode in which this occurs in reflection and speculation; the latter is voluntary, the former involuntary, necessary—as necessary as art, as speech.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

"Because, mamma, I am so small that I cannot eat enough to last me over an hour."
— from Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 by Various