“Where Bryce is concerned, yes; toward everyone else his conduct is too mean to consider.
— from The Man Between: An International Romance by Amelia E. Barr

"Compose yourself; this emotional exhibition is an evidence of weakness; an investigator should neither become depressed over a reverse, nor unduly enthusiastic over a fortunate discovery."
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

"And how came you to escape?" enquired Emma with interest.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

You don't mind if I call you that?” “Even Everard does that,” she said, smiling, and to his surprise there followed a sharp blush.
— from The Flying Death by Samuel Hopkins Adams

You, gentlemen of the committee, gave the theater to them because, not having anything to lose, they could yield to everything, even to the promising of what they knew themselves unable to perform.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

It was understood that this way was long and hard and cold, yet thousands eagerly embarked on keels of all designs and of all conditions of unseaworthiness.
— from The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland

"Right again; how can you tell?" "Easily enough.
— from Story of Chester Lawrence Being the Completed Account of One who Played an Important Part in "Piney Ridge Cottage" by Nephi Anderson

The latter, of course, are also essentially demon cults, yet they everywhere exhibit distinct traces of a transition into deity cults.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

It will give an opportunity to be more magnanimous and generous, to act kindly and to be more noble and high-spirited and will cause you to exert every possible effort to please.
— from Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration, Book one by C. J. (Casper James) Coffman