In the same way that children are taught to remember the spelling of teasing words— separate comes from separ —and as an automobile driver remembers that two C's and then two H's lead him into Castor Road, Cottman Street, Haynes Street and Henry Street, so important points in your address may be fixed in mind by arbitrary symbols invented by yourself.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

I plead for my brothers and sisters.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

His reign was as honourable to himself as it was beneficial to his country, in whose defence he had fought eighteen actions; but though his policy was too circumscribed, and his country would have benefited more by a surrender of some of those antique prejudices which kept her back in the general scramble for portions of the dilapidated monarchy of the Moguls, yet he was respected abroad, as he was beloved by his subjects, of whose welfare he was ever watchful, and to whose wants ever indulgent.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Into a good way, fallen on minding my business and saving money, which God encrease; and I do take great delight in it, and see the benefit of it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Laura read the letter, with a little sigh may be, as she thought of other days, but with contempt also, and she put it into the fire with the thought, “They are all alike.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

but surely, in my opinion, to lead our lives with one to whom we are indifferent must be a state of wretchedness.——Perhaps that wretchedness would be even increased by a sense of the merits of an object to whom we cannot give our affections.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The channel of circulation, if I may be allowed such an expression, will remain precisely the same as before.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

—” “Look here, prince,” said the general, with a cordial smile, “if you really are the sort of man you appear to be, it may be a source of great pleasure to us to make your better acquaintance; but, you see, I am a very busy man, and have to be perpetually sitting here and signing papers, or off to see his excellency, or to my department, or somewhere; so that though I should be glad to see more of people, nice people—you see, I—however, I am sure you are so well brought up that you will see at once, and—but how old are you, prince?”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

From the centre of the ceiling of this kitchen, old Wardle had just suspended, with his own hands, a huge branch of mistletoe, and this same branch of mistletoe instantaneously gave rise to a scene of general and most delightful struggling and confusion; in the midst of which, Mr. Pickwick, with a gallantry that would have done honour to a descendant of Lady Tollimglower herself, took the old lady by the hand, led her beneath the mystic branch, and saluted her in all courtesy and decorum.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

We must, however, be careful to remember that, man being a "social animal," no man is literally free; all members of a community are restricted in their behavior toward each other by social rules and customs.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Among the squash-vines he could see Mrs. Bob, and she was picking off bugs as fast as Bob was taking the potato-beetles.
— from The Adventures of Bob White by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

He fancied that this might be a signal calling for help, as is well known among woodsmen, and cattle rustlers.
— from Rocky Mountain Boys; Or, Camping in the Big Game Country by St. George Rathborne

The United States government at once took measures to prevent the French troops from being replaced by Austrians by declaring to the Austrian government through Mr. Motley, "that in the event of hostilities being carried on hereafter in Mexico by Austrian subjects, under the command or with the sanction of the government of Vienna, the United States will feel themselves at liberty to regard those hostilities as constituting a state of war by Austria against the republic of Mexico; and in regard to such war, waged at this time and under existing circumstances, the United States could not engage to remain as silent and neutral spectators."
— from The United States and Latin America by John Holladay Latané

After the nuptials were concluded, Laelius came up: and so far was he from dissembling his disapprobation of the proceeding, that at first he would even have had her dragged from the marriage bed and sent with Syphax and the rest of the captives to Scipio: but afterwards, having been prevailed upon by the entreaties of Masinissa, who begged of him to leave it to Scipio to decide which of the two kings should have his fortunes graced by the accession of Sophonisba he sent away Syphax and the prisoners; and, aided by Masinissa, employed himself in reducing the rest of the cities of Numidia, which were occupied by the king's garrisons.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

He merely bowed and smirked, taking his cue from my Lord Clare.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

And that meeting may be as soon as you please, sir, you know.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

I want to write to Mr. Bell and send him my picture.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

You must be a sentimental old bachelor for my sake.
— from The Education of Eric Lane by Stephen McKenna

I laughed with scorn as I lay in my bed (and so did the ghost give a ghastly snigger).
— from Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

Then it had moved back and squatted again.
— from Cat and Mouse by Ralph Williams