Sometimes they were compelled to take their children with them, and to leave them in the corner of the fences, to prevent loss of time in nursing them.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The personal life of Thomson is not of much interest.
— from English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée

"Come, poor little one, there is no home on earth for you--you belong to Heaven."
— from The Hour Will Come: A Tale of an Alpine Cloister. Volumes I and II by Wilhelmine von Hillern

if he had been at the ear of monseigneur to-night, instead of quiet people like ourselves, there is no knowing what would have come of it."
— from The Man-at-Arms; or, Henry De Cerons. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The youngest and most formidable—Muskwah, leader of the warriors, who looked upon the beautiful girl as his own life prize, yet with that reverential sense of ownership the dreamer might regard some glorious phantasy of his imagination—only awaited opportunity to strike at the pride of his rival; for surely the imperious white could never descend to the poor level of the Indian, nor choose a bride from the tents of the down-trodden race.
— from Menotah: A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by John Trevena

It was as well perhaps that the limit was intentionally put low, or there is no telling to what absurd price the parcel of miscellanea might not have been forced by his eagerness.
— from The Romance of Book-Collecting by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater

3368 —After the September massacres, and on the opening of the barriers, a number of proprietors and persons living on their incomes, not alone the suspected but those who thought they might become so, escaped from Paris, and, during the following months, the emigration increases along with the danger.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

[23] The following brief summary of the companies and enterprises in which the Banca Commerciale is interested may enable the British reader to form an idea of its decisive influence on the economic and political life of the Italian nation: they include eighteen of the largest companies of textile industries; sixteen of the most important companies of chemical, electrical and kindred industries; six of the chief companies of alimentation; twenty-six transport companies; twenty-seven of the principal companies of mechanical industries and naval construction; six building companies; five of the chief mining companies; twenty-eight of the largest electrical companies; and twenty-two miscellaneous.
— from England and Germany by Emile Joseph Dillon

Paralipómene, left out, that is not spoken or written of.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

That wisdom is justified of all her children, is a truth carrying to different generations the precise lesson of tolerance it needs.
— from Pastor Pastorum; Or, The Schooling of the Apostles by Our Lord by Henry Latham