Among these were many farmers with families, all except the children able to work and in their best years.”
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

“Or else it was administered in the brandy you gave her.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The old man who is not to be stamped out, and over whom none of us can triumph, was awaking in that backward youth, still a boy at twenty-four.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

“My lord,” replied the gentleman, “I can present to you no lady fairer and more completely at my disposal than my wife, and I therefore beg you to honour me so far as to lead her out.”
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

"If that thought gives you comfort, retain it," returned the woman; "the whole story of the earl's illness was an invention to bring you at so short notice from the protection of the prior."
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

It is lighted by a big window and is to be your study.”
— from Monsieur Bergeret in Paris by Anatole France

It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed: All wept, as I think both ye now would, If envy or age had not frozen your blood, At the sorrow of my sweet pipings.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch

What am I to bring you back—a satin gown from Paris?
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

—Before inquiring further into the manner in which we attain to a knowledge of this Intelligence, and of the ideal being of possible essences in this Intelligence, we may ask whether, above and beyond such ideal being, possible essences have not perhaps from all eternity some being or reality proper [pg 087] and intrinsic to themselves; not indeed the actual being which they possess when actualized in time, but yet some kind of intrinsic reality as distinct from the extrinsic ideal being, or esse intentionale , which consists merely in this that they are objects of thought present as such to a Supreme Intelligence or Mind.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

The production of good wine is thus reduced to a mathematical certainty; although we cannot in a bad season, produce as high flavored and delicate wines, as in the best years, we can now always make a fair article, by following the simple rules laid down by Dr. Gall .
— from The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines by George Husmann