"The very worst; I knew him at Nice," said Lawrence Lefferts with authority.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

It is very true that, after acquiring rebellious provinces a second time, they are not so lightly lost afterwards, because the prince, with little reluctance, takes the opportunity of the rebellion to punish the delinquents, to clear out the suspects, and to strengthen himself in the weakest places.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Dined at home at noon, staying long looking for Kate Joyce and my aunt James and Mary, but they came not.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Long before the day of the Puritans, our visionary employs names equivalent to sentences; we meet, in his poem, with a little girl, called Behave-well-or-thy-mother-will-give-thee-a-whipping, [646] scarcely a practical name for everyday life; another personage, Evan the Welshman, rejoices in a name six lines long.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

It is not elevation, but it is a new supernatural life lifting us from nothingness into God and making us partakers of the Divine nature.
— from Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A. B. (Albert B.) Simpson

“Why, I went up-stairs and kissed the child good night, and never suspected,” laughed Lily's mother.
— from The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

And now she looked like her father in his rare exhibitions of his true self.
— from Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips