In such a situation she naturally made many a romance such as young girls are fond of weaving.
— from The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac

You are not ignorant, I think, that through your yesterday's aggression, an aggression which may be regarded as attempted murder and robbery, since, as you are not at war with the Indians, and as, belonging to our race, should regard us as friends—you are not ignorant, I say, that you have rendered yourself amenable to the prairie law, which says, 'an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'"
— from The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert by Gustave Aimard

If you test a child on basic math and reading skills and you are "teaching to the test," you are teaching math and reading, and that is the whole idea.
— from State of the Union Addresses by George W. (George Walker) Bush

Mine are rather small, and yours—you will forgive me, but yours are enormous; they really are.
— from Dumps - A Plain Girl by L. T. Meade

You ask if when I talk of a spiritual man I am not thinking of a man of spiritual maturity, a real saint, and you say: "Does that come in one day?
— from The Master's Indwelling by Andrew Murray

What I have said may, I hope, mitigate any regret such as you seem to intimate.
— from The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn