No one ever came to see us but the postman, who brought my sister letters from the doctor, and Prokofy, who sometimes came in to see us in the evening, and after looking at my sister without speaking went away, and when he was in the kitchen said: "Every class ought to remember its rules, and anyone, who is so proud that he won't understand that, will find it a vale of tears.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"—"You'll know soon enough," cries Leonora; "but I can't guess what secrets can ever pass between us of such mighty consequence.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

“Yes; and, besides, you can always get the loan of old Joe’s knife,” said Eileen, consolingly.
— from Five Little Bush Girls by E. Lee (Emily Lee) Ryan

"This residue no known scientific explanation can account for.
— from The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine

N 13 00 E East Korea Strait (Eastern Channel or Tsushima Strait)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency