This, and the sheets of paper he prepared for me, come to L3, which I did give him, and though it be more than is fit to lay out on pleasure, yet, it being ingenious, I did not think much of it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Why not?" "Oh, Jim—but she's divorced!" "Well, so are lots of other people!" "Yes, I know.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris

His other arm was thrown across his chest, while he shook his head, and gazed in your face with such a woe-begone countenance, that the very smile froze on your lips; and as you couldn’t laugh out of politeness, you felt very awkward.
— from Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables

If you are intemperate in love, or other passions, you will reap disease or loss of fortune and esteem.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller

They took me up through the Mohawk valley to Lake Ontario, and there I met a lot of other prisoners, your Nell with them."
— from Marching on Niagara; Or, The Soldier Boys of the Old Frontier by Edward Stratemeyer

Furthermore, it's a logically constructed system of belief, and if you are loose on one point, you're loose on all.
— from Crestlands: A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne

"Yes, from morn till eve, and often late, late, in the white moonlight, we lived an ideal life on our pet yacht, the Ino .
— from A Romance of Toronto (Founded on Fact): A Novel by Annie G. (Annie Gregg) Savigny