Speaking of this matter the Jewish Encyclopedia says: "The social organization of the Jews resident in America has differed little from that in other countries * * * in the main, and without any compulsion, Jews preferred to live in close proximity to one another, a peculiarity which still prevails."
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

A few minutes after our household had retired to rest, my first sleep was broken by the voice of J. E——, speaking to old Jenny in the kitchen.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere, and would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go to the Rue Blomet.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General waited till the soldiers and wounded were all pass'd over, And then, (it was just ere sunrise,) these eyes rested on him for the last time.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Mr. Lamb was, of course, John Lamb, or James Elia (see the essay "My Relations"), then (in 1820)
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

John E—— said that we had no right to murmur, as long as we had health, a happy home, and plenty of fresh fish, milk, and potatoes.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I have to confess now, however, that my judgment erred somewhat, though not extravagantly.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Ígù rang mitayam (gitayam) ang asin sa íyang pagkáun, He used just enough salt to make his dinner slightly salty.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Not except out of the corner of one eye, and with only the slightest edge of subconscious recognition: just enough so that some niggling detail that was out-of-place kept bothering him thereafter; and just enough so that he made a point of stopping in the Security Office again that afternoon to add my new motel address to the information he'd given them the day before.
— from Exile from Space by Judith Merril

There was just enough starlight to enable me to discern the figure of a man standing at the open, window and gazing into the room.
— from The Mysteries of Heron Dyke: A Novel of Incident. Volume 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

Histoire sainte: Jesus en son temps.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Although still very young, or at least appearing so, he joined exceptional strength to marvellous agility and skill; his adventurous character found delight in extraordinary things, and impossibilities alone offered any attraction to him.
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

All these conceptions lack firmness, and are for the most part confused, since a general uncertainty and confession of ignorance prevails in them: in incerto judicium est, said Tacitus, almost summing up the ancient argument on the subject in this epigram, or rather finding non-thought, failure to understand, to be the result of the argument.
— from Theory & History of Historiography by Benedetto Croce

The enthusiastic Jane even suggested that they should devote a week's wishes to assuring the Baby's future, by asking such gifts for him as the good fairies give to Infant Princes in proper fairy-tales, but Anthea soberly reminded her that as the Sand-fairy's wishes only lasted till sunset they could not ensure any benefit to the Baby's later years; and Jane owned that it would be better to wish for fifty pounds in two-shilling pieces, and buy the Lamb a three-pound fifteen rocking-horse, like those in the big stores, with a part of the money.
— from Five Children and It by E. (Edith) Nesbit

It being judged expedient, since the publication of the last Edition of the first and second Volumes of this Work, to adopt a new plan with respect to the reference letters of the Plates, the Reader is requested to make the following corrections in those Volumes.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby