When a kingdom is broken just in the neck joynt, in my poore policy, ropes and hatchets are not the kindliest instruments to set it: Next to the spilling of the blood of Christ for sin, the sparing of the blood of sinners, where it may be as well spared as spilt, is the best way of expiation.
— from The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward

"That is just it, ma pauvre petite .
— from The Halo by Bettina Von Hutten

[231] "You liar," said Clinch contemptuously, "I got them jools in my pants pocket ——" Quintana's derisive laugh cut him short: "I give you thee Flaming Jewel if you show me you got my gems in you pants pocket!"
— from The Flaming Jewel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

There is much of the Jesuit in Mr. Phillips' philosophy of life and action.
— from The Call of the South by Robert Lee Durham

HENRY IRVING AS JINGLE IN "MR. PICKWICK" Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Co.
— from The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections by Ellen Terry

I do invest you jointly in my power, Preeminence, and all the large effects That troop with majesty.
— from King Lear by William Shakespeare

This Grosbeak previously assumed to be M. pectoralls of Jerdon; is most probably peculiar to Ceylon.
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Many people that I call on are Jewish, in my particular phase of business, and this area is very commonplace with me and never taken offense at or was there any reason to bring it up.
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission