When Mrs Kearney arrived with her daughter at the Antient Concert Rooms on Wednesday night she did not like the look of things.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

They have doubtless been present when I have spoken against Anti-christ, and——" "Yes, but this shipping matter of which you spoke, Bob, is a Jewish affair," interrupted Bastin, adding: "For I presume, since the cargoes would be composed of the Temple parts, that it would be financed by Jewish capitalists, religionists, or what not?
— from The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson

9; that modern theologians have cleared up this matter no better; that, when they are asked what they understand by the word person , they explain themselves only by saying that it is a certain incomprehensible distinction by which are distinguished in one nature only, a Father, a Son, and a Holy Ghost; that the explanation which they give of the terms begetting and proceeding , is no more satisfactory, since it reduces itself to saying that these terms indicate certain incomprehensible relations existing among the three persons of the Trinity; that it may be hence gathered that the state of the question between them and the orthodox is to know whether there are in God three distinctions, of which no one has any definite idea, and among which there are certain relations of which no one has any more idea.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 01 by Voltaire

He operated on Cherry Run, owning wells near the famous Reed and Wade.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

In these terrible circumstances, he applied to a friend upon whose generosity he knew he could rely, one who never failed him.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe

Zigzag came right on, with nose thrust out, as if he intended to kiss the other, who grew more and more displeased.
— from Deerfoot on the Prairies by Edward Sylvester Ellis

The grossest error into which these men have fallen, is that of continually regarding our war not as a struggle between two great principles, or as an unavoidable necessity, but simply as a strife between two factions.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

A will, “found in the house of an old Batchelor lately deceased” according to “The Muses’ Mirror” (1783), begins thus:— “With a mind quite at ease, in the evening of life, Unencumbered with children, relations, or wife; Not in friendship with one single creature alive, I make my last will, in the year sixty-five; [Pg 136]
— from The Romance of Wills and Testaments by Edgar Vine Hall

In 175 these terrible circumstances he applied to a friend, upon whose generosity he knew he could rely, one who never failed him.
— from Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert