Little did I fear, when I bade her a confident Good-by, on the deck of her outward-bound ship, that the sea would close over her earthly remains, ere we should meet again; far less that the light of my eyes and the cynosure of my hopes, who then bade her a tenderer and sadder farewell, would precede her on the dim pathway to that 'Father's house,' whence is no returning!
— from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller

"Lizzie Gordon." Rosie had finished long ago and had carefully inscribed at the conclusion of her essay: "Rosamond Ellen Carrick, Forest Glen, Ontario, Canada, North America, Western Hemisphere."
— from 'Lizbeth of the Dale by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

She was imperious enough, self-willed and obstinately resolute to have her own way in all matters, but she had a great deal of common-sense, realized what was possible and what impossible and was considerate of her entire retinue, even of such unimportant slave-girls as her three masseuses.
— from The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White

Here every day Nell did her best to carry on her education, reading everything she could get hold of, and writing extracts from her scanty library on the margins of the newspapers, because she had no writing-paper or exercise books.
— from Daughters of the Dominion: A Story of the Canadian Frontier by Bessie Marchant