In Rhode Island, they bear a proportion of at least one for every thousand.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers.” H2 anchor Chapter 28 Every object in the next day's journey was new and interesting to Elizabeth; and her spirits were in a state of enjoyment; for she had seen her sister looking so well as to banish all fear for her health, and the prospect of her northern tour was a constant source of delight.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Stay here and dine, stay here and help us to spend our last evening with you as happily, as like our first evenings, as we can.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

I took two pocket-handkerchiefs, but had very little occasion for either.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

If the reader would like one, for example, with plenty of nines, perhaps the following would satisfy him: 99999999 / 99990001 and 19999 / 99990001 .
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Up-twirling forests with his eddying tide, Madly he bears them down, that lord of floods, Eridanus, till through all the plain are swept Beasts and their stalls together.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

Laugh on, laugh on, my fair one, Laugh on for evermore.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

But they suffered horribly from lack of food, even eating in their starvation the leather slings on the masts.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches.—
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

"Look out for eavesdroppers.
— from Girls New and Old by L. T. Meade

This closed his life of free enquiry, for the Inquisition forbade all scientific research, and the dissection of corpses was prohibited in Spain.
— from Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses by Edith Wharton

CHAPTER XXVIII One day when Pansy was in the large hall of the harem, Rayma came to her, a look of feverish excitement in her eyes.
— from A Son of the Sahara by Louise Gerard

I discovered I could quickly finish my ground duties and have a lot of time left over for extra flying.
— from Test Pilot by James Collins

I dared not shoot while men were in the line of fire even on the other side of the cheetah, for I knew the high-power bullet would at that range go right on through, and I fairly split my throat trying to clear the way.
— from African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White

In close connection with this forward projection of our present selves, there betrays itself a tendency to look on future events as answering to our present desires and aspirations.
— from Illusions: A Psychological Study by James Sully

Moira, Lady Elizabeth, letter on French expedition to Ireland, iii. 315.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy

Think of it rather in terms of trade routes and navigation, of ship and dockyards, of busy ports and harbours, of a deeply indented coast line, 7,000 miles in length; of great rivers flowing into wide estuaries; of liners and tramps; weatherly east coast trawlers and burly Penzance luggers; of ancient fishing villages looking out from every bay and rocky inlet.
— from The Fleets Behind the Fleet The Work of the Merchant Seamen and Fishermen in the War by W. MacNeile (William MacNeile) Dixon