* A few years since the annual charge for a cab license was very much reduced, and the difference between the six and seven days' cabs was abolished.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The use of these “cards” is still the same, and the [Pg 328] close resemblance to the North American packs is marked, showing that all came from a common source.
— from Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards by Van Rensselaer, John King, Mrs.

The arts which are subordinated to the conditions of space, time, and causality find a certain firmness of structure in these material forms which contain an element of outer connectedness.
— from The Photoplay: A Psychological Study by Hugo Münsterberg

The heiress of the rich Don Ambrosio smile to a compliment from a cibolero!
— from The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid

It is a received maxim in political economy—we ought rather to say a rule of common sense—that all taxes and charges paid by the producer, over and above his necessary profit, fail ultimately to be defrayed by the consumer—that is, that such taxes and charges form a component part of the selling price of the article.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 434, December, 1851 by Various

It has been suspected that a clandestine flirtation and correspondence has for some time been carried on between your professor and one of the members of this school.
— from Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

Here is a little poem I sent a short time since to a committee for a certain celebration.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

As his people, alarmed, gathered around him, he raised himself up, telling them it was only a slight touch, and calling for a chair seated himself on the quarter-deck, where the surgeon came to dress his wound.
— from The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes by James Russell Soley