D. Antonio Sánchez Moguel's study (1881) of the relation between the Mágico Prodigioso and Goethe's Faust is learned and ingenious, and D. Antonio Rubió y Lluch's Sentimiento del Honor en el Teatro de Calderón (Barcelona, 1882) is a very suggestive essay.
— from A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

"Ye didn't none on ye happen to drop anything round yer last night?"
— from Found at Blazing Star by Bret Harte

Sit down and read your letters.
— from A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

"The first thing I did after reading your letter was to go on my knees, and, out of a full heart, thank my dear God for this mercy.
— from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Said that he was glad that you had found something worth doing and were doing it well, that he took a lot of interest in your goings-on—as he called it—and that Deane always read your letters aloud.
— from Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson

Two days after receiving your letter, there was a short leading notice about you in the "Gardeners' Chronicle" (501/1.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

As sexton of Grace Church, he officiated at the wedding of Miss Phoebe Lord, a daughter of Daniel Lord, whose marriage to Henry Day, a rising young lawyer, was solemnized in this edifice.
— from As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur