If such be your opinion of me, I must pray for a sudden opportunity of returning those pecuniary obligations, which I have been so unfortunate to receive at your hands; and for those of a more tender kind, I shall ever remain, &c.” And so concluded in the very words with which he had concluded the former letter.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

In the better sections of the town the houses are kept in such excellent repair, and have so smart an appearance with their bright green blinds and freshly painted woodwork, that you are likely to pass many an old landmark without suspecting it.
— from An Old Town By the Sea by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The supposition would at least be premature while our acquaintance with some even of those which we do know is so extremely recent.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

Although fifteen years old, she had been built of such well-seasoned timber, and had been kept in such excellent repair, that she was better than most vessels of half her age, and he sighed as he now saw her at anchor with the French flag fluttering at her masthead.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

My mother's friends belonged to a later generation, and were types of women whom to have known I shall ever regard as a blessing and privilege.
— from A Girl's Life in Virginia before the War by Letitia M. Burwell

why, that is my given name: didn't you know it?" said Elwood, rebukingly.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

"If they only knew it," said Eleanor reflectively, "muslin and lace are much more becoming to the complexion.
— from The Three Miss Kings: An Australian Story by Ada Cambridge

"It is essential," he says, "that such a treatise should be rid of everything superfluous, for the superfluous is an obstacle to the acquisition of knowledge; it should select everything that embraces the subject and [Pg 72] brings it to a focus, for this is of the highest service to science; it must have great regard both to clearness and to conciseness, for their opposites trouble our understanding; it must aim to generalize its theorems, for the division of knowledge into small elements renders it difficult of comprehension."
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith