Perhaps it was because she had a commanding tone of voice; perhaps because she was tall, bony, imperious; perhaps because she governed a kingdom of servants, chickens, dogs, cats, canaries, parrots, all so dear to an old maid's heart.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

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Then all those who had gone upstairs came down; cripples came, planting both feet on the same step lest they should slip; prim little girls came, holding the nurse's finger; fat old men came still buttoning waistcoats.
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

On the steps is a sacrificial altar, which retains its grooves for the blood of the victims, with an inscription stating that it was erected by "Cnæus Domitius C. Calvinus, Pontifex,"—who was a general under Julius Cæsar, and consul B.C. 53 and B.C. 40.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

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— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

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