For her life as Lurancy she appeared to have no remembrance; but she readily and unfailingly recollected everything connected with the career of Mary.
— from Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce

As for the men of the Embassy, from the Ambassador down to "Wilhelm," the old German doorkeeper who has initiated two generations of American diplomats into the mysteries of their profession in Berlin, no faithful servants of an ungrateful Republic ever came so valiantly to the rescue of fellow taxpayers.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

It is just in this respect that the international community of states differs for all time from the community of individuals who are united into a state, the latter requiring as ultima ratio executive compulsion on the part of a central power, while the former consistently with its nature and definition can never possess such a central power.
— from The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

Herbert felt fairly puzzled, he could not read her heart; he would have asked her confidence, he would have promised to do all in his power to forward her happiness, but there was something around her that, while it called forth his almost unconscious respect, entirely checked all farther question.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

Pray, if you can, tell that examining judge as soon as possible that I crave as a favor what a criminal must most dread, namely, to be brought before him as soon as he arrives; for my sufferings are really unbearable, and as soon as I see him the mistake will be cleared up——” As an universal rule every criminal talks of a mistake.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

———— And "Stridĕre apes utero & ruptis effervĕre costis.
— from Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson

" Hic vero subitum, ac dictu mirabile monstrum Aspiciunt: liquefacta boum per viscera toto Stridere apes utero, & ruptis effervere costis , Immensasque trahi nubes; jamque arbore summa Confluere, & lentis uvam demittere ramis .
— from Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson

The fancy, however, is not Herrick's; it is as old as poetry and the exaggeration of lovers, and I have the same privilege as another to try my fortune with it: UP ROOS THE SONNE, AND UP ROOS EMELYE CHAUCER When some hand has partly drawn The cloudy curtains of her bed, And my lady's golden head Glimmers in the dusk like dawn, Then methinks is day begun.
— from Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I came across one or two men who testified to having heard cries there, and one old woman, who declared she had seen a curious figure, half human and half animal, vanish in the pine trees; but I could get nothing in the way of details for some months, not until I had returned to London, when, quite by chance and under rather extraordinary circumstances, I was introduced to a man, long since dead, who many years before had had a somewhat harrowing experience there.
— from Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter by Elliott O'Donnell