At any time that you get a full attendance of the committee, or those absent represented by pairs so that both sides are represented, and no advantage can be taken and no criticism made of what takes place, whenever there is what is equivalent to a full committee present, I am willing that the committee shall again vote on the question and determine whether they want it out now.
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore
The initiation of the idea came from Mr Bradlaugh, who naturally sighed after his lost Investigator ; but as neither he nor any one of these Yorkshire friends was sufficiently wealthy to take the sole risk of starting and running a newspaper, a committee of Sheffield, Bradford, and Halifax men formed a Company and issued a prospectus, which [Pg 120] was inserted in the Reasoner of February 12, 1860.
— from Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
Jack soon repaired it and said: “Now, son, she's all right, and not a cent do I charge you.”
— from The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore
Dem merry-go-wheels keep up sich a racket all nite, sech a racket all nite, ah cyan't sleep."
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration
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