And Mrs. Jones saw me.
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy

Here Mr. Jackson smiled once more upon the company, and, applying his left thumb to the tip of his nose, worked a visionary coffee-mill with his right hand, thereby performing a very graceful piece of pantomime (then much in vogue, but now, unhappily, almost obsolete) which was familiarly denominated ‘taking a grinder.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

of the Taouist Doctor, Changchun, as translated by Dr. Bretschneider ( Chinese Recorder and Miss. Journ. , Shanghai, Sept.-Oct., 1874, p. 258), suggests to me the strong probability that it may be the Kem-kém-jút of Rashiduddin, called by the Chinese teacher Kien-kien -chau.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

An irregular musketry of applause escorted her also as far as the piano and then, as Mary Jane seated herself on the stool, and Aunt Julia, no longer smiling, half turned so as to pitch her voice fairly into the room, gradually ceased.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Mrs. Jervis, said he, since I know you, and you me so well, I don't know how we shall live together for the future.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

“Please don’t hate me, Jerry,” she sobbed.
— from The Cricket by Marjorie Benton Cooke

[143] Mill, John Stuart, Principles of Political Economy (London, 1917), ch. v, p. 74.
— from Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince

In an article in the Saturday Review , recommended by him to his daughter, it was said: “The only reason the Times ever gives for its dislike of Prussia, is that the Prussian and English Courts are connected by personal ties, and that British independence demands that everything proceeding from the Court should be watched with the most jealous suspicion.”
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

Mr. John Scott (Lord Eldon) in Parliament 549 A Chancery Jeu-d'Esprit 551
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

The definition of the nation relied heavily of the existence of a demonized and dehumanized enemy (Marxists, Jews, Serbs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Hungarians in Romania, etc.).
— from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin

And if I am to have the benefit of it, let me call it to mind when Satan haunts me with continual remembrance of my sins, of my Jerusalem sins.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Massinger employs the same term in his “Parliament of Love” (iv. 2): “The sad father That sees his son stung by a snake to death, May, with more justice, stay his vengeful hand, And let the worm escape, than you vouchsafe him A minute to repent.”
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

"Fastened?" murmured Jeanne, seized with fear.
— from Serge Panine — Volume 04 by Georges Ohnet