The woman who is a good wife, a good mother, is entitled to our respect as is no one else; but she is entitled to it only because, and so long as, she is worthy of it.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

It was as though nothing could turn out right, as if nobody could take a message without a mistake, as if the post and the telegraph had conspired together to send letters and telegrams to wrong addresses, and altogether all things, including the most sober and reliable institutions, seem to work backwards against results instead of for them.
— from A Rose of Yesterday by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Within the wall and gateway just mentioned, however, there was a kind of farm-house, adapted, I suppose, out of the old ruin, and I noticed some ears of Indian corn hanging out of a window.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The third county created in 1842, Wayne, taken from the western part of Cabell lay along the Ohio river and is now in West Virginia.
— from How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation by Martha W. (Martha Woodroof) Hiden

"I would not think about revenge," he said; "that is a kind of thing one reads about in novels and plays, but it is all out of date."
— from A Mad Love by Charlotte M. Brame

Our thoughts flow back as we gaze to the times long ago, when the earth belonged to other races as it now belongs to us.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

I observed that the people were busy bringing in the hay before it was dry into a sort of "fauld" or yard, where they intended to leave it, ready to be gathered into the house with the first threatening of rain, and if not com [Pg 110] pletely dry brought out again.
— from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Dorothy Wordsworth

A room there is called the Orange Room, and is now always papered and hung with that colour.
— from A Book of the West. Volume 1: Devon Being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I asked what punishment the officer received, and I noticed the plural pronoun as he icily replied, "We didn't enter any complaint."
— from The Cavalier by George Washington Cable

Siddi is a corruption of Saiyad, the designation of a descendant of the Prophet, and is commonly used as a term of respectful address in North Africa, like Sāhib in India.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

We learn, too, that our remarks “are in no way pertinent enough to detract from the value” of the Jireh products.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)