The writers, the editors, the lawyers, and the ministers of the gospel who composed it were more often than not men of national or international distinction.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Mark Twain

"Excuse me, Miss Scarse," he said politely, "but it is my opinion no one is dead at all.
— from A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume

And I remember hearing of a Mr. Roscoe, a great southern merchant—either in Charleston, or Mobile, or New Orleans, I don't rightly know where—but somewhere in the South.
— from Holidays at the Grange; or, A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Emily Mayer Higgins

"But tell me, what the devil is an educated man, of no ordinary intelligence, doing, working as a—as a day labourer?"
— from Là-bas by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

His mosque owes not only its design but its details to Christian sources.
— from Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire by William Holden Hutton