“Do you love anyone, Nanette?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
The city contains eleven fine churches; two hospitals, a dock yard, lazaretto, and numerous public buildings; an aqueduct supplies the shipping with water, and turns the saw mills in the dock yard.
— from Spanish America, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir
He was a small, rather delicate young lad about nineteen years of age, and was a runner for the 2nd Brigade.
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott
How do you lie at night?”
— from Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete by Honoré de Balzac
‘Ah! I have deceived you likewise, and no wonder, for I should not have known you, Philippe,’ cried the new comer.
— from Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
“On the day you left a number of bears took up their abode in the heart of the city,” began Mrs.
— from The Squirrel's Pilgrim's Progress A Book for Boys and Girls Setting Forth the Adventures of Tiny Red Squirrel and Chatty Chipmunk by J. D. (James Douglas) Williams
"Do you love anyone, Nanette?"
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 01: Childhood by Giacomo Casanova
He was epileptic, his strength undermined by incessant debauches; yet let a nation fancying him months away put on insurgent airs, and on that nation he descended as the thunder does.
— from Imperial Purple by Edgar Saltus
"Do you live anywhere near here?
— from The Camp Fire Girls in After Years by Margaret Vandercook
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