“Do you think it would be worth while to open up somewhere else in the neighbourhood?”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

We have two Children's Homes, to which not only children, but mothers can be sent, to tide them over until strong enough to work and get a little home together.
— from After Prison--What? by Maud Ballington Booth

Cushions and pads adjusted the receiver to the ears, and the helmet fitted close to the face so as to prevent as far as possible the transmission of undesirable sounds either through the ear passages or through the bony structure of the head, these bones acting as a sort of sounding board.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

Before I did so, the passengers had all bid each other good-by, and were beginning to go their different ways, wondering if any two of us should ever meet again.
— from John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch Or The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-legged Soldier after the War by A. F. (Ashbel Fairchild) Hill

"But, as though evil fortune had resolved to overwhelm us, something even more terrible and more fraught with anguish than the fall of Paris, was awaiting us.
— from Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton

"I mean how will the others know?" "I've got one horn for every two of us," said Eleanor.
— from The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains; Or, Bessie King's Strange Adventure by Jane L. Stewart

Jan Mayen the laws of Norway, where applicable, apply Japan modeled after German civil law system with English-American influence; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations Jersey the laws of the UK, where applicable, apply and local statutes; justice is administered by the Royal Court Jordan based on Islamic law and French codes; judicial review of legislative acts in a specially provided High Tribunal; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Kazakhstan based on Islamic law and Roman law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Kenya based on Kenyan statutory law, Kenyan and English common law, tribal law, and Islamic law; judicial review in High Court; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; constitutional amendment of 1982 making Kenya a de jure one-party state repealed in 1991 Kiribati English common law supplemented by local, customary law Korea, North based on Prussian civil law system with Japanese influences and Communist legal theory; no judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Korea, South combines elements of continental European civil law systems, Anglo-American law, and Chinese classical thought; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Kosovo evolving legal system based on terms of UN Special Envoy Martti AHTISAARI's Plan for Kosovo's supervised independence Kuwait civil law system with Islamic law significant in personal matters; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Kyrgyzstan based on French and Russian laws; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Laos based on traditional customs, French legal norms and procedures, and socialist practice; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Latvia based on civil law system with traces of Socialist legal traditions and practices; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Lebanon mixture of Ottoman law, canon law, Napoleonic code, and civil law; no judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

After that he had many adventures, and he was very busy, for he never again forgot what the Fairy had said, that only unselfish service each day could keep the scissors sharp and shining.
— from The Gate of the Giant Scissors by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston