I shall do very little more, I dare say, than say over again what you have said before.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

An elderly Lady Bountiful, who does not want her deeds of charity to take up too much of her time, provides homes within easy hail of her mansion for the conversion of atheists who have been specially manufactured for her, so to speak, and for a number of honest folk who have been made into drunkards so that she may cure them of their failing, etc.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

While they pay a certain mock homage to a wealthy immigrant, when they have a motive in doing so, they secretly are more inclined to look on him as a well-fledged goose who has come to America to be plucked.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

[Pg 98] monials in different styles to shew their proficiency, one unfortunately made a bad blot.
— from A History of Giggleswick School from its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell

Then came denials, vehement asseverations, protestations, and recriminations; loudest of all, because most in danger, sounded the sonorous voice of the archbishop and the mellifluous tones of Villena.
— from Old Court Life in Spain, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

Market value of publicly traded shares: $3.61 billion (2006) Currency (code): taka (BDT) Currency code: BDT Exchange rates: taka (BDT) per US dollar - 69.893 (2007), 69.031 (2006), 64.328 (2005), 59.513 (2004), 58.15 (2003) Communications Bangladesh Telephones - main lines in use: 1.187 million (2007) Telephones - mobile cellular: 34.37 million (2007) Telephone system: general assessment: inadequate for a modern country; fixed-line telephone density remains less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone subscribership has been increasing rapidly and is approaching 25 per 100 persons domestic: modernizing; introducing digital systems; trunk systems include VHF and UHF microwave radio relay links, and some fiber-optic cable in cities international: country code - 880; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-4 fiber-optic submarine cable system that provides links to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 6; international radiotelephone communications and landline service to neighboring countries (2007)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The purchases were made in double since the senator believed that they needed more than one joint livelihood and a hungry pack with meager resources forced into the same struggle for sustenance would foster acrimony.
— from Corpus of a Siam Mosquito by Steven David Justin Sills

"I only propose to part with you because agriculture does not pay, or I have not learned the way to make it do so," the squire had said.
— from The Village by the River by H. Louisa Bedford

The impulse which drives men in desperate straits to seek shelter in the streets of a city was as strong in Cardan's time as it is to-day.
— from Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters

The moment I did so the suction of the storm put out the light, and the next instant a flail of icy snow particles lashed through the room.
— from Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead