They say the town of Paris is worth a whole province to the King of France; for my own part I believe it costs him more than several provinces.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You all know, neighbours, what a man I be, and how I come down with my powerful words when my pride is boiling wi' scarn?" "We do, we do, Henery.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

It is a Jefferson, who devotes a lifetime to a "Rip Van Winkle," a Booth, an Irving, a Kean, who plays one character until he can play it better than any other man living, and not the shallow players who impersonate all parts.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

It appears there were also laws passed in both of the then colonies of New-Plymouth and New-Haven, and in the Dutch settlement at New-Amsterdam, now New-York, prohibiting the people called Quakers, from coming into those places, under severe penalties; in consequence of which, some underwent considerable suffering.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

“The case is as plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer it becomes.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Theodemir and his page, in battered armour, followed by a multitude of old men, women, and children.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

I may also refer to certain passages in Baber's "Memoirs," in which he speaks of a place, and apparently a district, called Dehánah , which seems from the context to have lain in the vicinity of the Ghori, or Aksarai River.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

You are aware that my plan in bringing up these girls is, not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence, but to render them hardy, patient, self-denying.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Whenever the state of the Treasury will permit, I believe in a reduction of taxation.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Calvin Coolidge

The sale was always best in the parks, I believe, and Sundays was the best days.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

The information about membership and activities of the Council on Foreign Relations and of its interlocking affiliates comes largely from publications issued by those organizations.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

And, thinks I, there's plenty o' pates in Boden, and a gude pair o' haunds here tae mak a roogue[2] 'at should lowe a muckle lowe ony nicht.
— from Viking Boys by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby

Said Dorothy: "I don't know how good his poetry is, but it seems to fit the notes, so that's all that can be 'xpected."
— from The Road to Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

He took out a coin, and put it back.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

But apart from the pleasure and profit which these beautiful birds ordinarily afford to their owners, some of them—the carriers—are often of the greatest value, and perform important business that would have to be left undone if it were not for them.
— from Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Frank Richard Stockton

Then Wheaton began to fasten the flag to it, and presently it began to go aloft.
— from The First Capture; or, Hauling Down the Flag of England by Harry Castlemon

This being so, we trust we have committed no very serious sin of plagiarism in borrowing as the heading of this chapter the title of a well-known work by Serjeant Pulling, one of the last survivors of the order.
— from The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell