One cannot love a reserved person.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

I also find that the writer himself from whom I have quoted, in a later treatise, [110] conducts long arguments respecting pleasure which are only intelligible if the distinction between pleasure and its conditions is thoroughly grasped and steadily contemplated.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

pl. of ālesan . ālǣtan 7 to let go, give up, leave, lose, resign, lay aside , Jn ; AO, CP: let, allow : release, pardon, forgive : deliver , Æ.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

"La timidité chez les aveugles," Revue philosophique , LXXVI (1913), 269-74.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Louisa was charming, like a Romney portrait, but among her many charms that of being a New England woman was not one.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Beyond the Tournelles, as far as the wall of Charles V., spread out, with rich compartments of verdure and of flowers, a velvet carpet of cultivated land and royal parks, in the midst of which one recognized, by its labyrinth of trees and alleys, the famous Daedalus garden which Louis XI. had given to Coictier.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream.
— from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

He visited England, and published some valuable works on law, history, and classical literature, and restored Phædrus and other ancient books which had long been lost.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

Mr. John Hay, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, and Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge are Republican politicians, as well as recognized literary men.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

Also, if they had a hunt, a standard erected on the tower of one castle could be seen plainly from the tower of the other, and so they could lead a right pleasant, neighbourly life, almost as if they all lived together.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold

A stranger would naturally suppose, from the frequency with which the words caffé, limonade, and restaurateur present themselves to the eye, that three parts of the inhabitants had turned their talents to the valuable study of relieving the cravings of an empty stomach.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

"Certainly, child," laughed Aunty Rolling Pin.
— from The Mary Frances Cook Book; Or, Adventures Among the Kitchen People by Jane Eayre Fryer

And while the Great High Belovedest and the Great High Favourite were grappling together with a tragedy not referred to in speech between them, and as remote from Stella's purview of life as the Lupanaria of Hong-Kong, she, with her white hand on the head of the blue Great Dane, who regarded her with patient, topaz eyes, looked out from her western window, over the channel, on the gold and crimson lake and royal purple of the sunset, and built out of the masses of gloried cloud and streaks of lapis lazuli and daffodil gem a castle of dreams compared with which poor John Risca's trumpery palace, with its Arachnes and Liliases and Niphetoses, was only a vulgar hotel in a new and perky town.
— from Stella Maris by William John Locke

Mr Blenkiron arrived punctual to the minute in a fur coat like a Russian prince's.
— from Greenmantle by John Buchan

He had reached a group of tents which were pitched in a kind of circle leaving a round plot of ground inclosed within.
— from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Yukon: The Lost Mine of Rainbow Bend by Harry Gordon