My own unhappiness bowed me to the ground; made me fretful, short-sighted, shy, careless: her unhappiness raises me.
— from Minna Von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"I don't see how that can help us," remarked my father.
— from The Treasure of the "San Philipo" by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
“Oh, yes; you could not have called her unladylike,” replied Miss Winstanley.
— from Hathercourt by Mrs. Molesworth
M. d’André, formerly a deputy to the Constituent Assembly, an émigré , and devoted to the royal cause, had undertaken Royalist missions to some of the sovereigns of Europe, and Bonaparte was perfectly aware of that fact.
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 1 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat
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