However, the matter of this is not great, and so I did it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[259] were more prone to work at the outset than most Indians, so that the present longshore career of most of them is not greatly to be wondered at.
— from On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph

I don't know whether that is coquetry, but, in my opinion, there is no greater pleasure for a woman."
— from Frédérique, vol. 1 by Paul de Kock

It took Talaat Bey, then Minister of the Interior, now Grand Vizier, to epitomize Turkey for me.
— from The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe by George Abel Schreiner

Told me one time: 'I never grow'd a' inch tell I was sixteen 'n' then I shot up like a weed.'...
— from Back Home by Eugene Wood

“These studies are so hard and there are so many of them I never get caught up.
— from Sally Scott of the WAVES by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

The multitude of these is not great, and if an author rested his hopes upon their favor he would be a much more imbittered man than he now generally is.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

A. In my opinion there is not gold and silver enough in the colonies to pay the stamp duty for one year.
— from Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader by Benjamin Franklin