"The effect of the whole," says one of his biographers, speaking of Lalla Rookh, "is much the same as that of a magnificent ballet, on which all the resources of the theatre have been lavished, and no expense spared in golden clouds, ethereal light, gauze-clad sylphs, and splendid tableaux."
— from English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée

The weasel is an active, bloodthirsty little animal, not exceeding seven inches in length from the nose to the tail.
— from Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

It has been like a nightmare ever since.
— from This House to Let by William Le Queux

he howled, “here I’ve bin lying all night ez scared ez a sick puppy and not ten feet above the ground!”
— from The Border Boys with the Mexican Rangers by John Henry Goldfrap

In the first place, how , coming from such a …" He checked himself and changed the form of his question: "I overheard you speaking to Victoria's maid, and I've been lying awake nights ever since, wondering how it happened that you speak French with so pure an accent."
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

It began like a New England snow-storm, with a few large, earnest flakes; then came the swirl of them, big and little, sleet and rain, fast and furious, regular and irregular, scurrying and tumbling over each other through the Andover mails.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various

It has been like a nightmare ever since.”
— from This House to Let by William Le Queux

This letter merely said that they had been lying at Nootka ever since the beginning of July and had heard of our being on the Coast from Mr Grey Master of the Columbia whom we had spoke the day we entered Defuca Streights.
— from The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 by Various