He never married again, but a beautiful bourgeoise, Laura Eustochia Dianti, became his mistress.
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius

And all the town remembers these things, but only two people remember a moment after the reception when every one was hurrying away to the dance and when the bridesmaid—such a sweet, pretty little bridesmaid—was standing alone in a deserted room with a tall groomsman—just for a moment—just for a moment before Adrian Brownwell came up bustling and bristling, but long enough to say, "Bob—did you take my gloves there in the carriage as we were coming home from the church?"
— from A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White

This was of very heavy metal, carrying about thirty-two balls [Pg 73] to the pound, stocked to the muzzle, and mounted with brass, its only ornament being a buffalo bull, looking exceedingly ferocious, which was not very artistically engraved upon the trap in the stock.
— from Life in the Far West by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton

A fancied Deity, an invention however beautiful of men's brain, supposed to be a living Being, cannot be a blessing, but, like every other falsehood, a curse.
— from Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Henry Sloane Coffin