Of course, she won’t be jealous of us young girls——” “Humph!
— from Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch; Or, Schoolgirls Among the Cowboys by Alice B. Emerson

"If we wanted to water our mediumship, couldn't we get rich out of the tips we give people on their business?" "But getting down to the earth plane," the young man continued—and perhaps the twinkles in his eyes were never more obstreperous—"how much would you ask to take a nice, easy job of using your eyes for me?" "Well," said Rosalie, "if there was nothin' unprofessional about it, I should say fifty dollars a week."
— from The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Will Irwin

You'd better go an see it; ony you needn't jump off, unless you like." Sailing up the harbor, the fog grew light enough for them to see the shore.
— from Lost in the Fog by James De Mille

I even suspect you of putting things down for the ‘sheer joy’ of unburdening yourself.
— from Twos and Threes by G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern

Our loves, [Pg viii] our dislikes, our jealousies, our unfortunate, yet often lovable, unreasonablenesses are reflected in our business life.
— from Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Harold Whitehead

[Daniel HERSCHKOWITZ]; SHAS [Eliyahu YISHAI]; The New Movement-Meretz [Haim ORON]; United Arab List-Ta'al [Ibrahim SARSUR]; United Torah Judaism or UTJ [Yaakov LITZMAN]; Yisrael Beiteinu or YB [Avigdor LIEBERMAN] Political pressure groups and leaders: B'Tselem [Jessica MONTELL, Executive Director] monitors human rights abuses; Peace Now [Yariv OPPENHEIMER, Secretary General] supports territorial concessions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; YESHA Council of Settlements [Danny DAYAN, Chairman] promotes settler interests and opposes territorial compromise International organization participation:
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[Daniel HERSCHKOWITZ]; SHAS [Eliyahu YISHAI]; The New Movement-Meretz [Haim ORON]; United Arab List-Ta'al [Ibrahim SARSUR]; United Torah Judaism or UTJ [Yaakov LITZMAN]; Yisrael Beiteinu or YB [Avigdor LIEBERMAN]
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[Binyamin ELON]; SHAS [Eliyahu YISHAI]; Torah and Shabbat Judaism or UTJ [Yaakov LITZMAN]; United Arab List [Ibrahim SARSUR]; Yisrael Beiteinu [Avigdor LIEBERMAN] Political pressure groups and leaders: B'Tselem [Jessica MONTELL, Executive Director] monitors human rights abuses; Peace Now [Yariv OPPENHEIMER, Secretary General] supports territorial concessions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; YESHA Council of Settlements [Danny DAYAN, Chairman] promotes settler interests and opposes territorial compromise International organization participation:
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Everyone knows he is so insanely jealous of us younger men that he watches the publishers’ lists for every book by a young poet of ability to pounce upon it, and to cut it up.
— from In Good Company Some personal recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen Phillips by Coulson Kernahan