Although in the round style, and comparatively barren of detail, it looks larger even than it is; larger than Santa Maria Novella or Santa Croce.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

My wife was dying; I loved Lady Emily; I was without offspring; I was poor; I was ambitious.
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

In this chapter we have seen that as man at the present day is liable, like every other animal, to multiform individual differences or slight variations, so no doubt were the early progenitors of man; the variations being formerly induced by the same general causes, and governed by the same general and complex laws as at present.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

“Oh! my dear!” II Love, like everything else in this immense process of social disorganisation in which we live, is a thing adrift, a fruitless thing broken away from its connexions.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

C. Decharme, in La Lumiere Electrique.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various

" "What do I look like, eh, boy?" "You may be angry if I answer that question.
— from Frank and Fearless; or, The Fortunes of Jasper Kent by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

In some countries it seems to be frequently observed, but in England it is so uncommon that the writer has only noted it about a dozen times in twenty years, and on no one of these did it last long enough to allow of its portrait being taken.
— from Cloud Studies by Arthur William Clayden