He was an aristocrat, if you please, and his home was as sacred to refinement and elegance as a ducal palace.
— from Hope Mills; Or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda M. Douglas

"The qualities and fortunes" of the old Romans, especially, their wonderful straight ways through the world, the straight passage of their armies upon them, the splendour of their armour, of their entire external presence and show, their "riches and embellishments," above all, "the suddenness of Augustus," in that grander age for which decision was justifiable because really [98] possible, had ever been "more in his head than the fortunes of his own country."
— from Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Walter Pater

The only scientific and practical way to get rid of them is to clean thoroughly, religiously, and scrupulously the room and every article in it.
— from Guide to Hotel Housekeeping by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Palmer

And when I come home from the school room I am too tired and sleepy to read anything except a newspaper or story.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, May 1884, No. 8 by Chautauqua Institution

The simple unmechanical minds of these Arabs seem to regard an engine as a being endowed with life and will-power; and quite recently a village sheikh near Berber protested to a railway official against the cruelty of forcing a small engine to draw a long line of heavily laden trucks.
— from The Downfall of the Dervishes; or, The Avenging of Gordon by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett

As evidence of the growth of the railway business of the country, the New York Central proper has added since the reorganization an enormous amount of increased trackage, and has practically rebuilt, as a necessary second line, the West Shore and used fully its very large terminal facilities on the Jersey side of the Hudson.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew