I would have been fonder of you—showed it more, I mean; but affection, repulsed, shrank into the shell of indifference.
— from A Pessimist in Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird

Believe me, I may be a rough-neck drummer, but I notice these things.”
— from The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

Disorder has not only a tendency to protract the war, but to make it more bloody and ruinous, and to aggravate all the calamities with which it is inseparably attended.
— from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. by William Falconer

Military Iraq Military branches: Army, Republican Guard, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Force, Border Guard Force, Fedayeen Saddam; note - with the defeat of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, the data listed in the following entries for Iraq is invalid, but is retained here for historical purposes and until replaced by valid information related to the future Iraqi Government (April 2003)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Tell me, is my beard all right?
— from The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil

I let Anita stand up beside me, cautiously at first, for it occurred to me it might be a ruse to cover some other of Miko's men who might be lurking near.
— from Brigands of the Moon by Ray Cummings

If eternal salvation in the order of temporal execution is given only as a reward of merit, it must be a reward of merit also in the order of intention.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

In the low machine the mixer is moved by a ratchet and gear on the truck underneath the mixer.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

At the stormings of Badajos and St. Sebastian I happened to be the adjutant of the regiment, and had the selection of the volunteers on those occasions, and I remember that there was as much anxiety expressed, and as much interest made by all ranks to be appointed to the post of 256 honour, as if it had been sinecure situations, in place of death-warrants, which I had at my disposal.
— from Random Shots from a Rifleman by J. (John) Kincaid

It might be very well for an unmarried young curate to be shamefaced in such matters; it might be all right that a snug rector, really in want of nothing, but still looking for better preferment, should carry on his affairs decently under the rose.
— from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope