But it is for an excellent charity: in aid of the Undeserving, the only people I am really interested in.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

If we continue united, we may counteract a policy so unfriendly to our prosperity in a variety of ways.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

In other cases the land has been let on lease to a single tenant on lives, or for a term of years, or both conjointly; and he has sublet to others, who have again gone on dividing and subletting, until the original proprietor is almost lost sight of, and the original holding is parcelled out among a host of small occupiers.
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

Now may be understood the odd provision in a will proved in the Consistory Court of Canterbury in 1652 (Bowyer, f. 57)—"I give to my son Thomas the sole fee-simple and inheritance of my dwelling-house, and all my lands and hereditaments thereto belonging, to him and to his heirs for ever.
— from Old Country Life by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Now must it be known in the other colonies that we are standing up for liberty, and, instead of believing us to be a few hot-heads, the people will understand that our party is a strong one, otherwise there would be no need for the governor to come out with such a force."
— from The Boy Spies with the Regulators The Story of How the Boys Assisted the Carolina Patriots to Drive the British from That State by James Otis

To live up to our principles is always the best proof of our belief in them.
— from Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly

He wrote Kritik des Modernen Geisterglaubens (Criticism of Modern Ghost Belief), Philosophische Unsterblichkeitslehre (Teaching of Philosophical Immortality), and other works.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

About an unclean table of pine, in a squalid room, sat the three—Espinosa, Gregorio, and Gregorio's wife; but the latter displayed none of the signs of satisfaction at Espinosa's prosperity which Gregorio had promised.
— from The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series by Rafael Sabatini

"Claggett," he said in his thin voice that cut now with the unexpected thinness of paper, "I am sorry to say such a thing to you, but your fever during the weeks just past has undoubtedly altered your brain.
— from Mr. Wicker's Window by Carley Dawson