In a melancholy mood she therefore communed within herself, "As far as my infant name goes, there is, in this establishment, no one who has any idea what it is, and how is it that he has come to know it, and that he utters it in his dream?"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Can not that opening be found, and may it not give a clue to the man I saw skulking through it with terror and remorse in his heart?”
— from The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green

you will pass for a mammy if not given more than a glance.”
— from Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison

I should dig the wet soil from the spot of which you speak, for all muck is not good for this Iris, and after mixing it with some good loam and well-rotted cow manure replace it and plant the clumps of Iris two feet apart, for they will spread wonderfully.
— from The Garden, You, and I by Mabel Osgood Wright

Because what is good for a man is not good for a woman; and if, indeed, renunciation of the world be the only path to the Great Peace, then surely it must be true that women must be born again.
— from The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding

I seldom looked at him, but for a moment I now glanced at his face.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

The dualism between concept and sensation, between the a priori and the a posteriori , between thought and thing, between form and matter, is not given in experience, for in experience the formal and the material are one inseparable whole; it is the product of cognition.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various