Sir Walter Scott ( Edinburgh Weekly Journal , May 19, 1824) maintained that its creator "has embraced every topic of human life, and sounded every string of the divine harp, from its slightest to its most powerful and heart-astounding tones."
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Suppose you want to know which celebrities have endorsed electric toothbrushes on television and, searching manually, you don’t find anything in the toothbrush articles.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman
Mr. Cleghorn, however, did not confine his efforts entirely to one line.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton
He should, he humbly confessed, have expected every thing of time and circumstances, of M. Costeclar’s excellent qualities, and of his beautiful, darling daughter’s good sense.
— from Other People's Money by Emile Gaboriau
Earnestly, constantly had Elsie endeavored to obey the command.
— from Elsie's children by Martha Finley
Or what rigidity of muscle in magnetic catalepsy has ever equalled that of a convulsionnaire, who would weary the strongest man, inflicting blows of a club, to the number of several thousands a day, on her stomach, while sustaining herself in an arc solely by the support of the head and the heels?
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
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