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Better to play the fiddle, or pick rags, or beg in the streets than that, Signor Principe.
— from Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
I, Patrick Riley, of Boston, in the said county, counsellor at law, having been duly sworn, depose and say, that I am, and have been, for fourteen years past, the principal deputy of the United States Marshal for the District of Massachusetts.
— from Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave: Held in Boston, in February, 1851. by Charles G. (Charles Gideon) Davis
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