"Be my wife and I'll change your respect into liking, your liking into love.
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice
Can you read it?” laughed Mr. Lowington.
— from Up The Baltic; Or, Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Oliver Optic
It is bad to clot your religion into lumps, and to leave the rest of the life without it.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren
can you recall it, Lemuel?—the boy was brought in from the mill and laid at my feet, dead!
— from The Amethyst Box by Anna Katharine Green
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