," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech—"there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Of course he was rather vexed with me and was avenging himself indirectly, possibly even for the yesterday’s “prison carts” and “floors that give way.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But we have never thought to provide that simple and inexhaustible form of amusement and physical education for the young.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The accounts of his private expenses for the years 1202 and 1203 have been preserved, which enable us to discover some curious details bearing witness to the extreme simplicity of the court at that period.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

De shote des 'peared ter cha'm Primus, en fus' thing you know Primus foun' hisse'f 'way up de road wid de shote on his back.
— from The Conjure Woman by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

Paul, every Frenchman tells you, is not read in France, save by milliners' girls and shopboys, or by literary porters, who solace the leisure of their lodge by a laugh over his pages, contraband amongst gens comme il faut .
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848 by Various

His personal expenses for ten years did not average three thousand dollars per annum.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe

You can't 'peaceably explain' foul treatment, you damned fool, and that's all we Hayles have had of you Courteneys this day.
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

Why all that verse-making for the albums of serene highnesses, and those pretty poetical entertainments for the young princesses, and that cold setting himself apart from his true peers, the real sovereigns of Weimar—Herder, Wieland, and the others?
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

For they promptly enough felt, these yearnings of thought and excursions of sympathy, the concussion that couldn't bring them down—the arrest produced by the so remarkably distinct figure that, at Fawns, for the previous weeks, was constantly crossing, in its regular revolution, the further end of any watched perspective.
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 by Henry James

He then went on to Rhodes, and practised elocution for two years.]
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

The almanac had predicted early frost that year, and although the entire family scoffed at almanac predictions Stud had cleaned and sharpened his tobacco axes, suckered his tobacco plants, cleaned out the sheds and gathered together a crew.
— from Plowing On Sunday by Sterling North

A post as draper's assistant was a poor exchange for the young soldier, who found the cavalry service of the royal army scarcely dashing enough, but the Revolution gave an outlet which Murat was quick to seize.
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison