He was the author of "A Short Topographical Description of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, to which is annexed a Provincial Gazetteer:"—a work of considerable antiquarian interest now, preserving as it does, the early names, native, French and English, of many places now known by different appellations.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

I'm yet young in years and don't know her much; what's more, I've no idea what's the degree of the relationship between us, and I daren't speak directly to her."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

“No, Sir,” answered I, disdainfully.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

"And I do colour up so hot, walking into church late, and all the people staring round," said Marian, "that I hardly cool down again till we get into the That-it-may-please-Thees.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

"This house is perhaps marked," resumed Carnot; "we are in danger of being taken.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

and I don't care.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My mother was in hysterics, and though I endeavoured to give her every assistance in my power, I am afraid I did not do so much as I might have done!
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To make such a frame, get a piece of stiff cardboard, about 12 inches by 9 inches, and cut a rectangular hole in the centre, 7 inches by 5 inches, as in Diagram III.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The name is generally applied by the ancients to a tribe of people inhabiting a portion of Æthiopia, and is derived from the circumstance of their dwellings being composed of caverns; a τρωγλὴ and δύνω .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

In the mean time the Prince of Orange was active in devising means to liberate his unfortunate country from the terrible scourge to which it was subjected.
— from Ten Great Events in History by James Johonnot

But the Curate went to every door, as in duty bound; as a friend, a neighbour, a Christian, but distinctly as one of the Clergy of the parish.
— from To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

“And I doubt not that Dr. Fell had both excellent principles and an excellent practice; still someone has recorded in deathless verse that she—I assume the sex—did not like that excellent man.”
— from Fanny's First Novel by Frank Frankfort Moore

When it was acquainted with the language held by the enemy's generals, it foresaw, that the independence of the powers of the state, stipulated by the convention, would not be respected; and it deliberated, whether it would not be proper for it and the chambers, to retire behind the Loire with the army.
— from Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

They have brought long lances and swords, but you have pointed lances and keen edged bills [3] ; and I do not expect that their arms can stand against yours.
— from Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou by Wace

If you want money, why don't you earn it, as I do?"
— from Dan, the Newsboy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

But although the present whirls so fast that I don't have time for the sort of thinking intellectual people like you and Isabel do, still it does sometimes dash across my mind—that question: 'What is it all for?
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

And I drew myself up, striking what I hoped was a dignified attitude.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920 by Various

I was hungry myself, but when I looked at him I forgot my own hunger, for such a forlorn appearance as he presented almost broke my heart, and I determined to find him something to eat at all hazards.
— from Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer; Or, A Drummer Boy from Maine by George T. Ulmer