Nay even the Primary electoral Assemblies, thinks Guadet, might be reconvoked, and a New Convention got, with new orders from the Sovereign people; and right glad were Lyons, were Bourdeaux, Rouen, Marseilles, as yet Provincial Towns, to welcome us in their turn, and become a sort of Capital Towns; and teach these Parisians reason.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The girl of to-day therefore knows she must learn to dance well, which is difficult, since dancers are born, not made; or she must go to balls for supper only, or not go to balls at all, unless —she plays a really good game of bridge!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The title of General and my renown have robbed me for ever of schi and savoury pies, and roast goose with apple sauce, and bream with kasha.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I thought I had cured her, but on the following day the frenzy went up to the brain, and in her delirium she pronounced at random Greek and Latin words without any meaning, and then no doubt whatever was entertained of her being possessed of the evil spirit.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Senators Pomeroy and Ross gave the full use of their "franking" privilege and the former contributed $50 besides.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Smile back at me, Ruby, for I played a risky stroke to get you, and shall play a risky game for many days yet."
— from I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Royz however refused to make the payments, stating that the inquisitors-general had placed him under excommunication if he should pay any royal grants.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

We were sitting in the drawing-room one evening recently; the various topics of the day having been more or less exhausted, somebody proposed a round game as a diversion.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919 by Various

Their loud and vain-glorious professions of resolve; their bombastic proclamations; their short, passionate and revolutionary governments; their personal rivalries and universal anarchy, denote impulsive tempers utterly incapable of sustained self-rule or resistance.
— from History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 by Brantz Mayer

206 King William had made large grants of land out of the forfeited estates in Ireland, to his foreign servants, Portland, Albemarle, Rochford, Galway, and Athlone, and to his favourite, Lady Orkney.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

It was the leveled top of the natural rock—a reddish-grey granite, smoothly polished, and rising gradually by low flights of steps each twelve paces wide and one foot high.
— from The Quest The authorized translation from the Dutch of De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden

Italians, at Mendoza, 263 ; increasing numbers of, in Argentina, 264–265 , 438 ; in Buenos Aires, 321–322 ; as labourers in Argentina, 332–333 ; distribution of, in Argentina, 339 ; birth-rate among immigrants, 339 ; question of influence of, on future nation, 339–340 ; in Uruguay, 355 ; in São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul, 376–377 , 406–407 ; slight effect of, on political and intellectual life in South America, 516–517 .
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount