The stories in "The Line of Love," though they may appear superficially to be excessively romantic, really owe all of their charm to their pungent realism.
— from Prejudices, Third Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

I hurried home, snatched up my pen, and in an epistle to Enoch instantly detailed, as minutely as I could recollect them, all the circumstances of the heroine's behaviour; acknowledging that I had listened, had suffered the intercourse of knees, legs, and feet, and as she said had once pressed her hand; that for this I feared I might have been to blame; but yet, if this were treachery, I knew not very well how a young man was to conduct himself, so as not to be accused of being either rude, ridiculous, or a traitor.
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

The only way everyone can peacefully co-exist in Cyberspace is by ensuring rapid recognition of any existing problems.
— from Zen and the Art of the Internet by Brendan P. Kehoe

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— from Forest, Rock, and Stream A series of twenty steel line-engravings by Nathaniel Parker Willis

'We admit that the General Synod never formally or by express resolution repudiated or abandoned the doctrinal basis (as laid down in the Augsburg Confession and the Catechism of Luther).'
— from American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente

They are now perfectly bright, every roughness rubbed off, and a finish being finally given to the points by hand on a hone which turns round, they are packed, twenty-five in each paper, for sale.
— from The Boy's Book of Industrial Information by Elisha Noyce