We were assured that, when the name and title of Englishman was the sole patent of nobility, we should all be noble; that when no man born under English sway, felt another his superior in rank, courtesy and refinement would become the birth-right of all our countrymen.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Behind the britchka stood a second, but an empty, turn-out, drawn by four long-coated steeds in ragged collars and rope harnesses.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Something I really care about right now?" "I don't know.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

So they joked him about his numerous sweethearts in Rubio City and related many entirely fictitious love adventures and romantic experiences that he was said to have passed through in different parts of the country during the years they had known him.
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright

As the ocean receives the impurities of the rivers and purges them, so Irving represented Christ as receiving into himself the impurities of humanity and purging the race from its sin.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

In the beginning of the present century the Directors of the Asylum sold their Egmore estate to the South Indian Railway Company and removed to new premises in the Poonamallee road; and what remains of the Egmore Redoubt is now the habitation of some of the Railway employees.
— from The Story of Madras by Glyn Barlow

[11] Toby shouted in rapid command, as rapidly as he could speak the word.
— from Left on the Labrador: A Tale of Adventure Down North by Dillon Wallace