'Ugh!' said Mr. Brownlow, with a slight shudder; 'a couple of glasses of port wine would have done him a great deal more good.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

You are to understand," said Mr. Bucket, "that this gentleman he come into Krook's property, and a good deal of magpie property there was.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It was suggested, however, that the United States might be permitted to make a certain number of reservations to individual Indians.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

1900—First gear-driven electric coffee grinder is introduced into the United States market by the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pennsylvania.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It is not impossible to conceive the surpassing liberty which the Americans enjoy; some idea may likewise be formed of the extreme equality which subsists amongst them, but the political activity which pervades the United States must be seen in order to be understood.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

There is hardly a member of Congress who can make up his mind to go home without having despatched at least one speech to his constituents; nor who will endure any interruption until he has introduced into his harangue whatever useful suggestions may be made touching the four-and-twenty States of which the Union is composed, and especially the district which he represents.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

But when he saith, "Moses meant not what you say, but what I say," yet denieth not that what each of us say, may both be true,
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

'The term you use,' said Mr. Brownlow, sternly, 'is a reproach to those long since passed beyond the feeble censure of the world.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Is the under side of civilization any less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more sombre?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Since then, the High Cross in the greater churchyard of the Church of London (where the Word of God is habitually preached both to the clergy and laity, being a place very public and well known), by strong winds and tempests of the air and terrible earthquakes, hath become so frail and injured, that, unless some means be quickly taken for its repair and restoration, it will fall utterly into ruin; therefore, by the mercy of Almighty God, trusting in the merits and prayers of the most Blessed Virgin Mary, His Mother, and of the Blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul, and of all the Saints, We, by these presents, mercifully grant in the Lord, to all the servants of Christ throughout [Pg 124] our province of Canterbury, wheresoever living, truly repenting and confessing their sins, who, for the restoration and repair of the aforesaid Cross, shall give, bequeath, or in any manner assign, of the goods committed to them, gifts of charity, Forty Days of Indulgence.
— from Old Church Lore by William Andrews

I hope you’ll come again,” untruthfully stammered Mrs. Brown, moving so as to block out the sight of William’s face, but Mrs de Vere Carter was not to be checked.
— from Just William by Richmal Crompton

'If you like to bring your sister with you when you come to stay with us,' said Mrs Boffin, 'of course we shall be glad.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“You cannot be too careful; watch your tongue, and eyes, and hands, for it is easy to tell, and look, and act untruth,” said Mr. Bhaer, in one of the talks he had with Nat about his chief temptation.
— from Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

While he was right in seeking to prevent the American people from allying themselves with the aggressive French democracy, he was wrong in failing to foresee that the national interest of the United States was identified with the general security and prosperity of liberal political institutions—that the United States must by every practical means encourage the spread of democratic methods and ideas.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

The Immortal Child of a love denied, a dream unborn, Spirit more brave Than passion's unfulfilment, wiser than fate— Nor breast nor grave
— from A Woman of Thirty by Marjorie Allen Seiffert

The par value of the milreis (1000 reis) is 54.6 cents (gold) of United States money; but its present actual value is only about 15 cents, and it has been as low as 11 1 ⁄ 4 cents.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"Oh, we're all cats, mewing or spitting as the fit takes us," said Mrs. Belgrove comfortably.
— from Red Money by Fergus Hume