1361 Colours ferric salts a pale brown, gives with ferrous salts a deep blue, and precipitates bismuth salts pale yellow; cadmium and mercuric salts, yellow; zinc salts, deep yellow; mercurous, cupric, molybdenic, silver, and uranic salts, reddish brown; cobalt salts, dark brown; manganous salts, brown; cupric salts, greenish; and nickelous salts, olive brown.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

At what purpose have say so? Put your confidence at my.
— from English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest by Pedro Carolino

“Why, in the first place, because you can’t fight till your arm’s well—oh, yes, of course Armand was going to fight you—and, in the second place, you can and must stay here.
— from The Indiscretion of the Duchess Being a Story Concerning Two Ladies, a Nobleman, and a Necklace by Anthony Hope

Don't stand pointing your crossbow at me, blockhead--it might go off!
— from Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen

I want—the words may seem presumptuous, yet carry a meaning which is humble—I want to be your friend; and to help you to a greater, better Friend.
— from Limbo, and Other Essays; To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Vernon Lee

That a contest thus forced on us by a nation a thousand leagues from us both, should place your country and mine in relations of hostility, who have not a single motive or interest but of mutual friendship and interchange of comforts, shows the monstrous character of the system under which we live.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

"See here, I'll tell you my reason for all this, so perhaps you can answer more intelligently.
— from Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant