In order to acquire a greater facility of executing swift passages in a light and neat manner, it will be of great use to you if you accustom yourself to skip over a string between two quick notes in divisions, like these— Of such divisions you may play extempore as many as possible, and in every key, which will be both useful and necessary.
— from The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

Uncle, I don’t judge him; there is such excitement, such passion in a lawsuit that even an honorable man may be led astray by them.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It is prudent to consult others before one ventures on publication; but every single person is as liable to be erroneous as an author.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

By an avenue of elms she passed into a large and beautiful garden, and so came to the imposing front door.
— from Will Warburton by George Gissing

It was in the early fifties and the hatreds of later years were unknown among men of equal social position in a land where hospitality was a religion.
— from Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman by Francis Hopkinson Smith

But, what they can have to do with chemical experiments, secretly pursued in a lonely field, is a riddle to which I have thus far found no answer.
— from Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins

And as I could not and would not believe him, he took me in a closed carriage through many streets; then into a low building and through echoing stone passages into a large bare room—a dissecting room!
— from Marie Tarnowska by Annie Vivanti

In order to acquire a greater facility of executing swift passages in a light and neat manner, it will be of great use to you if you accustom yourself to skip over a string between two quick notes in divisions, like these— etc.
— from Ole Bull: A Memoir by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull