“Have you asked God’s forgiveness for your passionate and revengeful spirit, Evson?” said the same constrained voice.
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

The mail order expense properly consists of its share of light, heat, power and rental, sundry expenses, such as stationery, office fixtures, furniture and wages paid.
— from How Department Stores Are Carried On by W. B. (Wesley Briggs) Phillips

It was finally decided that the Cabinets of Austria, Prussia and Russia should each send a separate note to the Government of King Louis-Philippe, urging a more careful surveillance of the revolutionary propaganda.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

To the Scots mind it is a perplexity how prayer and reading should ever seem one.
— from Heather and Snow by George MacDonald