" "Aye, and there's few folks know so well as you how it come to be Charity Land, eh, Mr. Macey?" said the butcher.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

SYN: Advent, coming, arrival, presence, apparition, aspect, Manifestatlon, probability, likeness, exhibition, mien, manner, semblance, air, show, look, pretense, likelihood, presumption.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

These two M’s, these cast-off robes sacrificed to love, everything makes my surprise greater.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It seems in after-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine ­ 4 To be the long and listless boy Late-left an orphan of the squire, Where this old mansion mounted high Looks down upon the village spire: 5 For even here, 6 where I and you Have lived and loved alone so long, Each morn my sleep was broken thro'
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

In civil life every man may, strictly speaking, fancy that he can provide for his own wants; in politics, he can fancy no such thing.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I give and bequeath to Ralph Sadler, my servant, 200 marks of lawful English money, my second gown, jacket, and doublet, and all my books.
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

The declaration of the Church as by law established, makes me say that I believe that the Establishment has been the means of increasing individual piety and national prosperity.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard

The days when a salary of thirty five shillings a week had looked enormous made me smile as I looked back upon them.
— from Between You and Me by Lauder, Harry, Sir