For if poverty is the point in question, the sailor is the poorer of the two; and if there is a man on earth who depends upon whole limbs and an unbroken spirit for support, it is the sailor.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Apparently to try and lure Robert to uphold some fraudulent scheme in which she is interested.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

In consequence, he was inordinately delighted to hear her voice one morning over the telephone—although the reason she gave for calling him up occasioned his undisguised surprise, for she informed him that sometime during the day he would receive an informal invitation from Mrs. Ames requesting him to be present at a luncheon she was giving at the Waldersee the following day.
— from The Silver Butterfly by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

I would have no right to sue the United States for such injury.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

Again, old Mr. Wright, who lives up South Fork somewhere, is teasing me continually about some deeds which he says he left with you, but which I can find nothing of.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

And so, after a moment's thought, she replied: "I'll take the present, thank you, Uncle Steve; for somehow I feel sure we'll have picnics this summer, as we always do; and I don't care much about a party, because I know so few children around here."
— from Marjorie's Vacation by Carolyn Wells

Ah yes, you must, you must! Take my horses to-night, leave here, and come back no more; and so none of us shall feel sorrow in thinking of the time when Valmond came to Pontiac."
— from When Valmond Came to Pontiac: The Story of a Lost Napoleon. Volume 3. by Gilbert Parker

Jack, his usually smiling features set in lines of care, got into the canoe and paddled slowly toward the float, his eyes fixed on the water.
— from Death Points a Finger by Will Levinrew

In general, the Protestant cities of the United States fall short in great works of architecture: the Reformation, young in years, and sacrificing nothing to the imagination, has rarely erected those domes, those aerial naves, those twin towers with which the old Catholic religion has crowned Europe.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de