A leader writer in one of the most important literary Constitutional journals in this country observed to me in conversation that "all such nonsense as patriotism ought to be done away with"; another writer for the same paper told me he would not in the least regret to see the British Empire broken up.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

But in this fancy Janetta only proved herself young at heart; in later years she found, as we all find, that the outer man is little changed by the most terrible and heart-rending calamities.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

My grandchildren —As in most Indian languages, Cherokee kinship terms are usually specialized, and there is no single term for grandchild.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

When they returned, Mr Inspector looked considerably astonished.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

ATHENIAN: Should you like to see an example of the double and single method in legislation? CLEINIAS:
— from Laws by Plato

In criticising the importance given to money in La Comédie Humaine , Théophile Gautier says that Balzac may claim to have invented a new hero in fiction, le héros métallique .
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Salvatierra, Juan Maria, Jesuit missionary in Lower California, 306 .
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

Betty, standing muffled in long cloak and fur hood, on the steps of the house, said to herself, with a thrill of excitement, "All's well; please God I may say as much when midnight sounds to-night.
— from An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott by Jeanie Gould Lincoln

An offence is punishable under this act, even although no bad passions came into play, (as hatred, or revenge,) for the term 'malice,' in law, covers all cases of intentional wrong, in their mildest form.
— from The Seaman's Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service by Richard Henry Dana

He is an entire stranger in our circle, and seems to be remarkably shy, embarrassed, and little accustomed to move in larger circles.
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen