"Well," said Aladdin, blushing a rosy red, "you might make me your son."
— from Jack and the Check Book by John Kendrick Bangs

“If Miss Warren has been admirable,” Robert remarked, “you, Mrs. Stratton, have been indispensable.
— from Isabel Clarendon, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Gissing

And you take advantage of an unquenchable passion, of a despairing love, to attempt the solution of a problem to which the answer may be a rope round your cousin's neck."
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Suppose the Pont du Gard in a plain, it would still be beautiful as a piece of architecture: see it, where it is, enclosed by the sides of a deep [Pg 291] valley and bestriding a rapid river, you will admit it to be an object at once grand and picturesque.
— from Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste

The first-named has a simple and pathetic story, and, as usual with Madame Sand's plays, it was strengthened at its first production by the support of some of the best acting talent in Paris—Fechter, then a rising jeune premier , and the veteran Bocage ably representing, respectively, youth and age.
— from Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas

But if you are only patient, some day it will flash upon you in all its beauty, and richly repay you for waiting.
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

Becomes a red rose, you see—a rose that was white before.
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain