I shall always like to remember that there is a brook at Green Gables even if I never see it again.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

In fine, He is the God whom Porphyry, the most learned of the philosophers, though the bitterest enemy of the Christians, confesses to be a great God, even according to the oracles of those whom he esteems gods.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

And then suddenly I remembered how, when I was a boy, a great German effendi had visited Sikinos, and was reported to have dug up and carried away with him priceless treasures.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

Soft strains of music were introduced between the courses, and in some houses gold replaced silver in the way of plate, and everything that skill and art could suggest was added to make the dinners not a vulgar display, but a great gastronomic effort, evidencing the possession by the host of both money and taste.
— from Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister

For every day was but a repetition of those that had gone before: a great, grimy engine shunting cars back and forth on the siding; an endless stream of weary, young cattle flowing down the steep chutes into the pens, from the pens to the branding chutes, where they were burned deep with the mark of their new owners; then out through the great gate, crowding, pushing, wild to flee from restraint, yet held in and guided by mounted cowboys; out upon the green prairie where they could feast once more upon sweet grasses and drink their fill from the river of clear, mountain water; out upon the weary march of the trail, on and on for long days until some boundary which their drivers hailed with joy was passed, and they were free at last to roam at will over the wind-brushed range land; to lie down in some cool, sweet-scented swale and chew their cuds in peace.
— from The Lure of the Dim Trails by B. M. Bower

would you be a good girl, eh?”
— from Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

And now to conclude with the description of the whole Iland, this I will ad moreouer vnto hir commodities, that as there are the best milstones of white, red, blew, and gréene gréets, (especiallie in Tindaithin)
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

But a genuine, generous emotion had touched him, and with it woke pangs of remorse and contrition.
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

I am quite ready to admit, with his lordship and Mr. Pope, that Swift is a staunch friend, and the cleverest squib-writer in Europe: I prostrate myself before a genius greater even than Rabelais; but I cannot esteem him a generous lover."
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 2 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

A few minutes later, Chérubin, attended by a genuine groom, entered his tilbury and drove away, paying no heed to Jasmin, who shouted to him from a window in the pantry: “He’s taken us in, monsieur!
— from The Bashful Lover (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIX) by Paul de Kock

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— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency