" "Not as your doctoring does, eh, Kimble?—because folks forget to take your physic, eh?" said the Squire, who regarded physic and doctors as many loyal churchmen regard the church and the clergy—tasting a joke against them when he was in health, but impatiently eager for their aid when anything was the matter with him.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot
It translates your plain English search commands into the cryptic search language used by the services.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
And the young Princess Elizabeth stood up by the organ, that her Highness might not be injured in the throng, as she was only just four years old.
— from Pictures of German Life in the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
My brother has taken Young People ever since it started, and now we could hardly do without it.
— from Harper's Young People, November 23, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
"My daughter-in-law is, though young, prudent enough," said Buruzgay.
— from Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry
Being, like the younger Pitt, extremely sanguine, he was prone to underrate difficulties.
— from Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
I will make you a ragout of it fit for the Gods; it was the prettiest little calf,” added he, taking me kindly by the hand, “that you perhaps ever saw.
— from The Life and Adventures of Guzman D'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue, vol. 1/3 by Mateo Alemán
Just so I have been a party to your present edifying soliloquy, and have learnt several things from it.
— from Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
I have wanted to write a letter to Young People ever since I first subscribed to it, but mamma thought I wrote too badly.
— from Harper's Young People, August 23, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
We have taken Young People ever since it was published, and we like it very much.
— from Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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