Where could they discover a firm footing, if not there?
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

Now, among the guests of the Hotel Beau-Site there had always been a professed scorn of the rival Hotel Métropole, which was a franc a day dearer and famous for its new and rich furniture.
— from Denry the Audacious by Arnold Bennett

He was not to be harmed, but to be driven away from France, if necessary, at the torpedoes breath.
— from A Republic Without a President, and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

Now, among the guests of the Hôtel Beau-Site there had always been a professed scorn of the rival Hotel Métropole, which was a franc a day dearer, and famous for its new and rich furniture.
— from The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

The very controversies which he set up made for disintegration; and Fénelon found it necessary to “refute” Malebranche as well as Spinoza, and did his censure with as great severity as Arnauld’s.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

The most expensive flowers and fruits were sent to her daily, the Wynton jewels were being reset for her use, and Wynton Castle elaborately decorated and furnished for its new mistress.
— from A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia E. Barr

Though she had not expected summer greenness and a sweet inviting home, yet the reality was so dreary and forbidding, from its necessary contrast with the past, that she sank down on the floor, and buried her head in her lap in an uncontrollable passion of grief.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

"He loved his country, my dears, and fought for it nobly.
— from Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls by Josephine Chase