She says she's jealous of Katy and I don't know why she is.
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Many meetings with 'Lias on the moorside, which the old seer made alive for both of them—the plundering of 'Lias's books, whence he had drawn the brown 'Josephus' in his pocket—these had done more than anything else to stock the boy's head with its present strange jumble of knowledge and ideas.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

And now, Lester, you may have just one kiss, and I must go.”
— from A. D. 2000 by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller

Hector kept possession of Ellandonnan Castle until compelled by an order from the Privy Council to give it up in 1511 to John of Killin, and it appears from the records of the Privy Council that from 1501 to 1508 Hector continued to collect the rents of Kintail without giving any account of them; that he again in 1509 accounted for them for twelve months, and for the two succeeding years for the second time retained them, while he seems to have had undisturbed possession of the stronghold of Ellandonnan throughout.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

In a word, he failed, and not unreasonably, to understand that when the Jersey man was mouthing a strange jargon of knowledge and incoherence, and Winter was inclined to be snappy with his subordinate, and each was more than rude to the other, they were then giving tongue like hounds hot on the trail.
— from Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy

He went out with a jingle of keys, and in a few minutes the door opened once more, and a serious-eyed person of about five years old staggered in, carrying a very fat, heavy baby, whose sleepy head nodded across her shoulder.
— from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth

He drew a long breath to relieve it—to calm it with cool oxygen, and then he cocked the five chambered pistol and waited as full of the joy of killing as if the man who was now walking down the path was a wolf or a mad dog—down the path and right into the muzzle of the pistol, backed by the arm which could kill.
— from The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

The hair cut off by the bullet is often of great assistance in determining the location of the wound, and the torn-up needles or ground often show if the animal jumped or kicked as it was shot.
— from Tracks and Tracking by Josef Brunner

I consider Parliament as the proper judge of kings, and it is necessary that they should be amenable to it.
— from Lectures on the French Revolution by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

A teacher in any field should be one who has chosen his work because he loves it, who makes no repine because he takes with it the vow of poverty, who finds his reward in the joy of knowing and in the joy of making known.
— from Life's Enthusiasms by David Starr Jordan