As we read, the souls of all the beasts in turn seem to us to have entered the bodies of these mortals; horrible in their venom, savagery, lust, deceitfulness, sloth, cruelty, filthiness; miserable in their feebleness, nakedness, defencelessness, blindness; and man, 'consider him well,' is even what they are.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The 15th demands safe conduct for mediators.
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

Did she care for Mr. Townsend so much?
— from The Automobile Girls at Newport; Or, Watching the Summer Parade by Laura Dent Crane

How I wish our poor father had lived to derive some comfort from my fortune!
— from The Gentleman's Model Letter-writer A Complete Guide to Correspondence on All Subjects, with Commercial Forms by Anonymous

It may be that the flood was at last numbing his fear, as it had so soon done that of all the brute-life around him; it was in his mind to do something calling for more courage than he had ever before commanded in his life, save on that one day in Carancro, when, stung to madness by the taunts of a brave man, and driven to the wall, he had grappled and slain his tormentor.
— from Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable

What did she care for Mr. Miller's good or bad opinion?
— from Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes