I look for me and Seth to get a little business for ourselves i' that way, for I know a man at Rosseter as 'ull take as many things as we should make, besides what we could get orders for round about.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

306 As duchies, kingships, and magistracies are real and necessary, because might rules all, they exist everywhere and always.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

A book about religion, it was, by a lady; and I'm sure dear Mamie knows as much about religion as anyone."
— from One Man's View by Leonard Merrick

“We’ll kill a man all right, an’ sometimes for mighty little provocation, but after he’s dead, what’s his is his.
— from The Aeroplane Express; or, The Boy Aeronaut's Grit by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler

He should never forget that an arrow will kill a man as readily as it does an animal and that one should always consider where his shot ultimately will land, both for the purpose of finding his shaft and avoiding accidents.
— from Hunting with the Bow & Arrow by Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) Pope

Now, Peter, you probably know as much about Reddy as any one here.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

As duchies, kingships, and magistracies are real and necessary, because power rules all, these exist every where and always.
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal

“Word was passed along, that’s all I know,” answered Mumps, and ran away, to avoid further questioning.
— from The Putnam Hall Encampment; or, The Secret of the Old Mill by Edward Stratemeyer

But the best picture of all was Noah's Ark. First the ark came on alone—then a plank seemed to be put down—then came the great elephants, lions, tigers, and bears, marching up the plank two and two into the ark—and after [40] them all the rest of the animals in the world, getting smaller and smaller, until little wee monkeys, and kittens, and mice, and robins, and grasshoppers, and blind beetles, and big spiders, and tumble-bugs, ran and hopped, and skipped, and crawled up the plank in such quantities, that it was quite a wonder they were not all suffocated in such a crowd.
— from The Little Nightcap Letters by Aunt Fanny