These closes, characteristic of Scottish towns to this day, were so long, and burrowed under so many sightless-looking windows and doors, to emerge in unexpected places, that he admired James’s knowledge of the short cuts of Montrose, though it seemed to [Pg 62] him no more than natural.
— from Flemington by Violet Jacob

I was obliged to wipe my eyes, and in order to change the current of my thoughts I said to mon petit Dame.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

To you I need not enlarge upon the fact that, at Paris, a combination of men, though immeasurably superior to us in status or influence, without a journal at command is nowhere; with such a journal, written not to alarm but to seduce fluctuating opinions, a combination of men immeasurably inferior to us may be anywhere.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

At a place about twenty-four miles from the city of Morocco, there is said to have occurred a catastrophe much resembling what took place at the Lisbon mole.
— from The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

When I could not dispose of my medicines, I tried mantillas, and in the course of my tour I sold the whole of Margaret’s wares, faithfully remitting to her the money for the same.
— from Seven Wives and Seven Prisons Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True Story by L. A. Abbott

By looking through a crevice of my tent I saw them distinctly, without alarming them.
— from Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

He had developed slowly, feeding upon many experiences of the world in many countries, his quick Italian intelligence comprehending often more than it seemed to do, while the quiet dignity he got from his Spanish blood made him appear often very cold.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford