Sophy likes sweets, so is not insensible to these attentions, and she is quite ready to do honour to what we have provided; for I always have my share of the credit even if I have had no part in the trouble; it is a girl’s way of returning thanks more easily.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hening reports Serit Sharpe a Burgess for this place in 1629, and Serjeant William Sharp is named in the text as living there in 1626.
— from Colonial Records of Virginia by Various

The repetition of the same invocation at the commencement of the Prayer and the Song is noteworthy; if the two are not contemporary, it has probably been borrowed by the composer of the Prayer.
— from The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney

And that this study is not improper to the age with which I connect it, is the second point I would endeavour to demonstrate.
— from Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin

It seems especially appropriate that The Hague should be chosen as the permanent meeting place of the peace tribunal, for it is not only centrally located for European countries, and, being small, is not itself tempted to appeal to arms, but it has long been the home of religious liberty, and its people were pioneers in the defense of the doctrine that rulers exist for the people, not the people for the rulers.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

May I explain it to you, ma'am? I must tell you Simon is not indifferent to Tánya, and is engaged to her.
— from Fruits of Culture by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The sickness is now in the town, and we have been made weak thereby.
— from The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul by John Bunyan