I took it in good part, at the hands of Providence, that I was thrown into a position so little akin to my past habits; and set myself seriously to gather from it whatever profit was to be had.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I took it in good part, at the hands of Providence, that I was thrown into a position so little akin to my past habits, and set myself seriously to gather from it whatever profit was to be had.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every little while he gets an emergency call from some big industrial patient who pays him a steel magnate’s salary to come out to their plant and sit around smoking dollar cigars and twisting his moustache and looking wonderfully wise until such time as he can quietly find out what their own Sales Manager’s plans are for the coming season, and then in a Confidential Report to the Board, recommend them as his own good, original, incomparable stuff.
— from Dumbells of Business by Louis Custer Martin Reed

The pears have a strong musky smell, and are more or less astringent.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

But the great record remains; and on a site beautiful even for Kashmir, where the river sweeps gracefully round to kiss the spur on which the city was built, and from whose sloping terraces the inhabitants could look out over the smiling fields, the purple hills, and snowy mountain summits of their lovely country, there still exist the remnants of the ancient glory as the last, but everlasting sign that once great men ruled the land.
— from Kashmir, described by Sir Francis Younghusband, painted by Major E. Molyneux by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir

It has often been considered amazing that Protestantism having accomplished so much should have fallen backwards so soon, and yielded almost undisputed sway in vast regions to the long dominant church.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) by John Lothrop Motley

When I see you and Lord C. with your children about you, and all of you in perfect health and spirits, my sensations of pleasure are greater than in the most joyous hours of my youth.
— from George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by George Augustus Selwyn

‘If she expands her wings and flies away from me, am I to pick up a blunderbuss with the notion of potting her as she makes sail?
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

Some one just ’phoned her, and she must stay to meet them.
— from The Highflyers by Clarence Budington Kelland