She told Miss Perkins that she liked that story best of any book she had ever read.
— from The Chinese Kitten by Edna A. Brown

Whatever the animal whose shape a man took could do, that he could do, plus such power as he possessed in virtue of his [Pg 87] manhood or acquired by sorcery, his eyes remaining as the only features by which he could be recognised.
— from Myths and Dreams by Edward Clodd

"O my poor, poor mother!" cried Janet with a bursting sob, her eyes raining hot tears.
— from The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown

After a short extension of the armistice, a peace was made, one of the terms being that England should hold suzerain power over the Transvaal and control its foreign affairs, and another, that Boers and British should have equal rights.
— from With Rifle and Bayonet: A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

She was not ill educated either, but she had never speculated upon things, she took them for granted just as they were, and Jean d'Agrève was probably the only awakening book she had ever read.
— from Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story by Elinor Glyn

There was nothing better in any book she had ever read than the little conversation with the handsome youth which she had had that morning upon the lawn.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis