But let us refrain from speculating; let us rather make certain that Europe will retrieve that which, in India, amidst this people of thinkers, was carried out thousands of years ago as a commandment of thought!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And so let us remember Mr. Tatlock sitting, lost in meditation, in his garden.
— from The Friendly Club and Other Portraits by Francis Parsons

When the church clock struck, when any other sound stirred, when a little mouse familiar to her chamber—an intruder for which she would never permit Fanny to lay a trap—came rattling amongst the links of her locket-chain, her one ring, and another trinket or two on the toilet-table, to nibble a bit of biscuit laid ready for it, she looked up, recalled momentarily to the real.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Inflation rate-consumer price index: 23% (1996) Labor force: total: 15.4 million by occupation: agriculture 33%, manufacturing 21% (1988 est.) note: shortage of skilled labor Unemployment rate: more than 30% (January 1998 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

There are many financial journals that are so closely identified with the speculative interests of the country, and many railway papers that depend so largely upon railway men for support, that railway managers are never without a medium through which they can present their views to the public.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

“I’m ever so glad to see you,” he said, looking up rather more shyly than was his wont.
— from Harry Harding's Year of Promise by Alfred Raymond

It is when you have brought to bear upon this page (still looked upon, remember, merely as a printed page regardless of the matter behind the print) all your previous knowledge,—it is when you have observed that the paper is of good quality, that the page is closely set, that the print is excellent, that the margin is wide,—it is when you have compared it in memory with other pages in other books,—it is when you have not only perceived but ap perceived it that you have really gained a conception of it.
— from Vocal Expression: A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts

"Come!" said Miss Sallianna, "let us return, Miss Summers."
— from The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke