That's the kind of rulers the old partyites give you!”
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

A great number of the electors will have two sets of preferences—those on private and those on public grounds.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

But we ought not to erase from our memory the two years of her life, but to consider them as a time of pleasure giving us gratification and enjoyment, and not to deem the shortness of the blessing as a great evil, nor to be unthankful for what was given us, because Fortune did not give us a longer tenure as we wished.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

My mother, being at once highly accomplished, well informed, and fond of employment, took the whole charge of our education on herself, with the exception of Latin—which my father undertook to teach us—so that we never even went to school; and, as there was no society in the neighbourhood, our only intercourse with the world consisted in a stately tea-party, now and then, with the principal farmers and tradespeople of the vicinity (just to avoid being stigmatized as too proud to consort with our neighbours), and an annual visit to our paternal grandfather’s; where himself, our kind grandmamma, a maiden aunt, and two or three elderly ladies and gentlemen, were the only persons we ever saw.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

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— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

one of them holdes the peice and some one of the opposite party gesses which hand contains if he hits on the hand which contains it the peice is transferred to the opposite party and the victor counts one, if he misses the party still retain the peice and score one but the individual tranfers the peice to some other of his own party; the game is set to any number they think proper, and like the natives of this quarter they always accompany their opperations with a particular song.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The older people greeted them with sneers, derision, offensive epithets, and sometimes with curses.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The old people got out at Motteville with their basket, their ducks and their umbrella, and they heard the woman say to her husband as they went away: “They are no good and are off to that cursed place, Paris.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"But, really, I am very sorry to hear this of poor Gouache," said Corona at last, returning to the original subject of their conversation.
— from Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

From the [Pg 330] teachings of Prof. Gates, we deduce;
— from Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson

[106] In Welsh it has also the name of “the tree of pure gold,” a rather surprising title for a plant with green leaves and white berries.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

The whole of the old people go to one end of the table, and Young Germany to the other.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

"MENTERIS IMPUDENTISSIME," said Walpole in his dog-latin once, in our Royal presence, to one of these official plunderous gentlemen, "You tell an impudent lie!"—at which we only laughed.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle