In the course of his self-examination with retrospect to this year, he seems to have been much dejected; for he says, January 1, 1774, 'This year has passed with so little improvement, that I doubt whether I have not rather impaired than increased my learning'; and yet we have seen how he READ, and we know how he TALKED during that period.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Shortly after breakfast Henry left them for Woodston, where business required and would keep him two or three days.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Abeceda′rian, a term formed from the first four letters of the alphabet, and applied to the followers of Storch, a German Anabaptist (1522), because they rejected all worldly knowledge, even the learning of the alphabet.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

In her indifferent wandering she turned into Jackson Street, not far from the river, and was keeping her way along the south side of that imposing thoroughfare, when a piece of wrapping paper, written on with marking ink and tacked up on the door, attracted her attention.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

We are known here—I, at any rate, am well known.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Else I should give him our own bottle o' rum as we keep by us.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Phr. worth the price; worth a king's ransom; accountants who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Men who had been hopeless of supporting their families in comfort and independence at home, thought that they had only to come out to Canada to make their fortunes; almost even to realise the story told in the nursery, of the sheep and oxen that ran about the streets, ready roasted, and with knives and forks upon their backs.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The young blush much more freely than the old, but not during infancy, [1302] which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The estate of course remains absolutely with Kenelm to dispose of, as it did before, and we must take it for granted that he will marry; at all events he cannot fall into your poor father's error: but whatever Kenelm hereafter does with his property, it is nothing to you, and is not to be counted upon.
— from Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

However, he recovered, and we kept him under close guard
— from Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays by Annie Roe Carr

The Boer general, who for a day and a half had been fighting a constant succession of rearguard actions with Kitchener's infantry, took his measures promptly to meet this new dilemma.
— from Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

V-e-r-y w-e-l-l ; the wheel may turn round again, who knows?
— from Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern

During the voyage, to the great astonishment of his wife and son, he landed but rarely, as we know.
— from Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne

The rest are wisely kept from the public, else, forsooth, the fledgling writers of penny-shockers would seize upon them for raw stock.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard

It is difficult to believe that the Bonsal map could have been made by any man who had gone over the hill-trail followed by the Rough Riders and who knew where the fighting had taken place.
— from The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt