In order to entangle the latter even more deeply in ruin, she stipulates that he must come disguised and masked, and fixes the rendezvous in one of those pleasure resorts which he has just suppressed.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

For the meanings and maturer purposes of these States are not the constructing of a new world of politics merely, and physical comforts for the million, but even more determinedly, in range with science and the modern, of a new world of democratic sociology and imaginative literature.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom the motto "Dieu et mon Droit" is required to be on the compartment below the shield, and thereon the Union Badge of the Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock engrafted on the same stem.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I am glad that I am to end my days in Riverdale.
— from Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders

"[37] Something is always wrong, he thinks, if Religion becomes a burden: "It is imperfection in Religion to drudge in it, and every man drudges in Religion if he takes it up as a task and carries it as a burden.
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

Each minor disfigurement is retained, as the loss of the tooth in Crawford’s screaming skull, the missing toe in Bierce’s Middle Toe of the Right Foot , the lacking foot in the ghostly vine, and so forth.
— from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough

Nothing would be easier than to demonstrate that their notions of the rights of numbers was wrong, to demonstrate that were their theories carried out in practice, there could be, and would be nothing permanent or settled in human affairs; yet not only did each lustrum, but each year, each month, each week, each hour, each minute demand its reform.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

3316 —Madame Guillin, who is saved through the compassion of two of the inhabitants of the place, succeeds, after encountering many dangers, in reaching Lyons; she and her children lost everything, "the chateau, its dependencies, the crop of the preceding year, wine, grain, furniture, plate, ready money, assignats, notes, and contracts."
— from The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

Sandy Sawtelle drew an affecting picture of himself being cut off by high living at the age of ninety, leaving six or eight million dollars in round numbers and having his kin folks squabble over his will till the lawyers got most of it.
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson

Eh?" "My dear," I replied, "I am perfectly willing to celebrate the engagement in any way you like—yes, we'll have a nice dinner, and ask Dr. Juke—I am sure we owe him every attention that we can possibly pay him; but what I want to warn you against is letting them suppose that there is to be any celebration of the marriage—with our consent."
— from Materfamilias by Ada Cambridge

And, she had even more difficulty in recognizing the fair-haired little boy of that time in the good-looking but rather moody-faced young man who at the present moment was seated near the window, staring out of it.
— from The Moon Rock by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

"That is so, although I am exceeding my duty in revealing this."
— from The Rome Express by Arthur Griffiths

“Perhaps I can explain that myself, if you will allow me to examine my drawer,” I replied.
— from Living Too Fast; Or, The Confessions of a Bank Officer by Oliver Optic