It first came to my knowledge through your old patient, poor Miss Flite, when I was recovering from my severe illness."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

When that quantitative count changes up or down, you have a definite guide with which to control your own propaganda policy.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

According to this account, the whole debt paid off, during eleven years of profound peace, amounted only to £10,415,476:16:9 7/8.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

"Only such a few weeks ago you said that I was far sweeter than all your other pleasures put together, and that you would give them all up for me; and now, won't you give up this one, which is more a worry than a pleasure?
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The very women and children nowadays take upon them to lecture the oldest and most experienced men about the ecclesiastical laws; whereas the first of those of Plato forbids them to inquire so much as into the civil laws, which were to stand instead of divine ordinances; and, allowing the old men to confer amongst themselves or with the magistrate about those things, he adds, provided it be not in the presence of young or profane persons.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

P. It is your own poor pettifogging nature then, which you desire to have represented before you?—not human nature in its height and vigour?
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The number of British ships annually arriving in our ports was reduced 1756 sail, containing 92,559 tons, on a medium of the six years' war, compared with the six years of peace preceding it.—The conquest of the Havannah had, indeed, stopped the remittance of specie from Mexico to Spain; but it had not enabled England to seize it: on the contrary, our merchants suffered by the detention of the galleons, as their correspondents in Spain were disabled from paying them for their goods sent to America.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Year of Publication Place of Publication Language 1 ca.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

I omit mention of Licinius and Sextius, whose years of perpetuated power ye number, as that of the kings in the Capitol; who is there this day in the state so mean, to whom the road to the consulate is not rendered easier through the advantages of that law, than to us and to our children?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

[4] en ella como en Europa, Estados Unidos y otras partes; pero es innegable que en esa parte del mundo hay importantes yacimientos carboníferos que aguardan su explotación.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[196] from your own particular point.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

Only if you decide to go, don't forget to take along some of your own pumpkin pies.
— from Green Valley by Katharine Yirsa Reynolds

In the drawing-room, the furniture covered with shabby cotton velvet, the plaster statuettes pretending to be Florentine bronze, the clumsy cast chandelier merely lacquered, with cheap glass saucers, the carpet, whose small cost was accounted for in advancing life by the quality of cotton used in the manufacture, now visible to the naked eye,—everything, down to the curtains, which plainly showed that worsted damask has not three years of prime, proclaimed poverty as loudly as a beggar in rags at a church door.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

"I did my best to invent an acceptable excuse for you; but she said it was no use--nothing short of your own personal prayers for mercy would do."
— from The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright

"You bound me to secrecy," he said doggedly, "yet our private pourparlers seem to be property of your General Staff."
— from The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp From the Papers and Diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'Alteville by Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer

To keep the vital spark aglow you must kill walrus and seal in your own proper person or by proxy, for no other talent of body or grace of mind is convertible into that sustaining meat and heating blubber which all must have in order to live.
— from The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

" Six months before, Mr. Dunbar had walked down these steps, mounted his horse and hurried away to keep tryst with the fair, noble woman, whose promised hand was the guerdon of ambitious schemes, and years of patient, persistent wooing.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

The Commonwealth and Its Economy External and Internal Bankruptcy of the Roman State We have traversed a period of ninety years—forty years of profound peace, fifty of an almost constant revolution.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Bertrande, still sitting at the door, resting her forehead on her hand, thought sadly of her uncle’s words; recalling in imagination the past scenes which they suggested, the time of their childhood, when, married so young, they were as yet only playmates, prefacing the graver duties of life by innocent pleasures; then of the love which grew with their increasing age; then of how this love became altered, changing on her side into passion, on his into indifference.
— from Martin Guerre Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas