There were Puritan coffee-houses where no oath was heard, and where lank-haired men discussed election and reprobation through their noses; Jew coffee-houses, where dark-eyed money changers from Venice and Amsterdam greeted each other; and Popish coffee-houses, where, as good Protestants believed, Jesuits planned over their cups another great fire, and cast silver bullets to shoot the King.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout [French: love does much but money does everything]; aurea rumpunt tecta quietem
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

They were, in fact, about to be dispossessed for non-payment of rent when Mr. DeVere experienced a return of an old throat affection, making it impossible for him to speak his lines.
— from The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays by Laura Lee Hope

He gave a smile, which was at once the most disdainful, energetic, and resolute possible, and answered, with a haughty gravity,— "I see what you mean,—well, yes!"
— from Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic by Victor Hugo

[Pg 87] CHAPTER XII THE HERMITAGE For many days Evroult and Richard, the sons—unhappy, leprous sons—of Brian Fitz-Count, bore their sad lot with apparent patience in the lazar-house of Byfield; but their minds were determined, come weal or woe, they would endeavour to escape.
— from Brian Fitz-Count: A Story of Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

"All this time," said Miss Darner, evading a reply, "we are neglecting our skating privileges."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Availing himself of a passage on the schooner of Captain B., William left Petersburg, where he had been owned by "Mark Davis, Esq., a retired gentleman," rather, a retired negro trader.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

Montaigne complains with good reason that too many definitions, explanations, and replies to difficult questions, are purely verbal.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews