Just now I must go and receive callers; his Excellency saddles me with that burden when he has other matters to attend to.
— from Bureaucracy by Honoré de Balzac

Mrs. Crew is a real Christian, has excellent sense, and had a good education from my mother.
— from The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales by Hannah More

Never did philosopher speak more correctly, and I only wonder that so wise a remark could have existed so many ages, and mankind not have laid it more to heart.
— from Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving

Only the income of a Rothschild could have entirely satisfied his cravings for the delights of existence.
— from The Spider by Fergus Hume

Each of her two masts carried canvas, and when the cable parted a ready command had evidently sent the crew racing to cast loose both sails from their lashings.
— from Flower of the Gorse by Louis Tracy

He claims for Mantua a Tuscan origin 157 ; but the Etruscan race in the region north of the Po had for a long time previously given way before the settlements of the Gauls; and, although Roman conquest had established several important colonies north of the Po, the main stock between that river and the Alps must have been of Celtic blood, although assimilated in manner of life and culture to the purely Italian inhabitants of the Peninsula.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

Her dark skin was smooth and richly coloured: her eyes soft and still brilliant.
— from Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan

Only the “cave of flint” instead of turning into a “retreating cloud” had enough solid matter to sustain the arch and so became permanent.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman