Some one addressed Confucius, saying, 'Sir, why are you not engaged in the government?'
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

The new steamer shot along wonderfully, and the patent log showed a speed of seventeen miles an hour, a speed which as yet no English, French, or American boat had ever obtained.
— from The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne

They were a charming old couple, and the son was a young naval engineer (shipbuilder), working in the ship yard at Helsinoere.
— from Through Scandinavia to Moscow by William Seymour Edwards

I had long doubted whether any such woman as you need existed; but I recognized Cornelia as the person whom, in imagination, I had destined for you; therefore she must belong to you.
— from A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern

"I assure you, Fräulein, that there is no man living from whom I would listen to the slightest word against you, not even my own father.
— from The Strange Story of Rab Ráby by Mór Jókai

he said,–"besides; this polar life is but so bald and cold; besides, we stand weeks and years near each other without stirring with the heart anything better than our blood,–only two or three glowing moments hiss and go out on the glaciers of life,–why do you still avoid everything that draws you out of your commonplace, and that reminds you how man loves?
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul