'—Him that shall be nameless, under such circumstances passes me by, and puts a talking-over stranger above my head.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Unnumbered suppliants crowd preferment's gate, / Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great; / Delusive fortune hears the incessant call, / They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, February 7, 1865 Major-General W. T. SHERMAN, commanding Military Division of the Mississippi.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

“I’ll do it,” said Dolly, and getting up, she carefully passed the spoon over the frothing sugar, and from time to time shook off the clinging jam from the spoon by knocking it on a plate that was covered with yellow-red scum and blood-colored syrup.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Lieutenant-General U. S. GRANT, commanding the Armies of the United States, City Point, Virginia.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, January 81, 1865.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

A tattered mendicant, who could not collect any coins, lost as he was in the midst of the crowd, and who had not probably found sufficient indemnity in the pockets of his neighbors, had hit upon the idea of perching himself upon some conspicuous point, in order to attract looks and alms.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

"You were born in the United States," Crag pursued.
— from First on the Moon by Jeff Sutton

And so it happened that two minutes later, Vaughan, on his way from Brereton's lodgings in Unity Street, came plump upon the two.
— from Chippinge Borough by Stanley John Weyman

“If the gentleness of your carriage has not belied your heart, you will fly to me, almost as fast as you fled from me—haste as you will——you will arrive but to see me expire.———’Tis a bitter draught, Diego , but oh! ’tis embitter’d still more by dying un ————” She could proceed no farther.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

If under such circumstances Panama is retained and controlled by us, it will be because our forts and garrison and our fleets on the ocean make it unsafe to meddle with the canal and the canal zone.
— from America and the World War by Theodore Roosevelt

(10) Population.--The term ``population'' means population according to the most recent United States census population estimates available at the start of the relevant fiscal year.
— from Homeland Security Act of 2002 Updated Through October 14, 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

Under such circumstances people naturally get a tendency towards fatalism, and undue persistence even gets to be regarded as a sin.
— from Five Years in a Persian Town by Napier Malcolm

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, CITY POINT, April 7, 11 A.M., 1865.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

As we approached the meeting house, our ears were greeted with a volume of song, and the woods re-echoed with such weird strains as only our people in their unlettered state can produce.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 10, October, 1880 by Various