Fortunately you do not feel the strain until afterwards, when it does not matter, and then you can look back with very great pleasure and satisfaction on a hard-won fight.
— from Lawn Tennis for Ladies by Mrs. Lambert Chambers

If it had been a thing you could leave behind by the easy dodge of stepping off the stage I would never have looked at you a second time.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

"She'd be pleased to read also that you came late, but highly intoxicated."
— from The Auction Block by Rex Beach

The rope whizzed across the yard, caught little Bill round the neck, and brought him down off the post.
— from On Our Selection by Steele Rudd

what has a slave to give?” and the young chief laughed bitterly.
— from My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave: A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

You will attract those you can love by making a CHOICE of the kind you want, while you are in the quiet times of your meditations.
— from Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration, Book one by C. J. (Casper James) Coffman