Mr. Snagsby in his best coat, looking at all the preparations when they are completed and coughing his cough of deference behind his hand, says to Mrs. Snagsby, "At what time did you expect Mr. and Mrs. Chadband, my love?"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But in order to do nothing that can annoy or give offense, it is necessary for us to consider the point of view of those with whom we come in contact; and in traveling abroad it is necessary to know something of foreign customs which affect the foreign point of view, if we would be thought a cultivated and charming people instead of an uncivilized and objectionable one.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

But the trial proceeded regularly to its end; we were beaten, and judgment was entered against our client for the amount claimed, and costs.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Moreouer she confessed that at the time when his Maiestie was in Denmarke, she being accompanied with the parties before specially named, tooke a Cat and christened it, and afterward bound to each parte of that Cat, the cheefest partes of a dead man, and seuerall ioynts of [pg 096] his bodie, and that in the night following the saide Cat was conueied into the midst of the sea by all these witches sayling in their riddles or Ciues as is aforesaide, and so left the saide Cat right before the Towne of Lieth in Scotland: this doone, there did arise such a tempest in the Sea, as a greater hath not beene seene: which tempest was the cause of the perrishing of a Boate or vessell comming ouer from the towne of Brunt Iland to the towne of Lieth, wherein was sundrye Iewelles and riche giftes, which should haue been presented to the now Queen of Scotland, at her Maiesties comming to Lieth.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

A Gloomy Word Of course there are chaperons and chaperons!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Stimuli conducive to economical and effective response, such as our system of roads and means of transportation, our ready command of heat, light, and electricity, our ready-made machines and apparatus for every purpose, do not, by themselves or in their aggregate, constitute a civilization.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

If they provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority, by the strong hand, and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top, as certainly as cream rises in a bowl of milk: and if the people should destroy class after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the leader, and would [165] be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

They rode into the yard, jumped from their horses, and approached me with large whips, one of them also carrying a coil of rope.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

any, Japan to supply its trained Chinese army, and Germany to turn over to Japan the Allies’ concessions and colonies in China.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

And he did his best to persuade the relieving officer that he would never want relief for himself, asserting that he belonged to a club, and concealing the fact that he was a superannuated member of it, no longer entitled to benefit from the club funds.
— from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth by George Sturt

These notices, as we have just intimated, are introduced here to give the reader, who may not be otherwise acquainted with the "Treatise," a correct and clear idea of the work.
— from Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou

Thus a belief is true when it corresponds to a certain associated complex, and false when it does not.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Still retaining his pompous manner, he said, “She has ordered me to go to a certain merchant in the town and collect a considerable sum of money.”
— from The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In Florence there are a score or more of Tintoretto's pictures in the galleries of the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace; in the former there is a striking replica of the "Wedding at Cana" in the Venetian church of the Madonna della Salute, but all these have their crowd of admirers; they are catalogued and clearly seen.
— from Tintoretto by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan

They erected a trophy for this victory, hanging one of the conquered islands on the head of the whale, which they fastened their hawsers to, and casting anchor close to him, for they had anchors immensely large and strong, spent the night there: in the morning, after they had returned thanks, and sacrificed on the back of the whale, they buried their dead, sung their Io Pæans, and sailed off.
— from Trips to the Moon by of Samosata Lucian

"Sergeant Mock," called Holmes, in a low, even voice, "turn the men over to a corporal and come here."
— from Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Or, Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

There are certain accomplishments commonly called ornamental , deemed by many desirable for females, and by some considered as of much consequence.
— from A Memorial of Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge by John Breckinridge

True, there are critics and critics.
— from The Potter's Craft: A Practical Guide for the Studio and Workshop by Charles Fergus Binns

What I am going to propose is this, that Harry and I should go to the Agricultural College at Cirencester for a few months and get an idea of the business; and then, if Dinah would start me with a good round sum we could begin to get the place in order.
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey