Thus I find this sentence in a letter to Colonel Tupp: "Some of our negroes in New Jersey are very troublesome, and some wise plan should be devised lest they become a heavy burden——" "It would appear"—thus should it be erected into Biographical effect—"that the Doctor, to be named always with so much veneration, was probably one of the first of our men of giant minds, to foresee the dangers of the problem involved in the existence of the African race, in the new world.
— from Papers from Overlook-House by Frederic W. Beasley

With no misgiving, save that of a possible detection, Sir Robin, now that this even had been disposed of at an expense of a hundred guineas, felt nothing if not jubilant, and on the morrow proceeded to order him a suit of satins in crimson, 242 a hat of the latest fashion, ruffles, cravats, silk hose, a muff, and a lot of other fallals at Monsieur Jabot’s in Holborn.
— from My Lady Peggy Goes to Town by Frances Aymar Mathews

"My name is not Justine at all," she said smilingly, "nor Harrison, either, although I chose it because I have cousins of that name.
— from The Treasure by Kathleen Thompson Norris

“I know perfectly well,” he wrote to his most inti {362} mate friend, “that my nature is naturally joyous and susceptible of all happy impressions; but that is the very reason I am wretched.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

"My name is Nomis J. Arkdragen, assistant manager in charge of nightside dreams."
— from The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley

Its range covers more than 200,000 square miles, beginning at the north in New Jersey and following down the coast regions to central Florida.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

What I need is not just a man to add columns for me.
— from The Hallowell Partnership by Katharine Holland Brown