CHAPTER XXI A Quarrel About an Heiress Love may be felt for any young lady endowed with such qualities as Miss Swartz possessed; and a great dream of ambition entered into old Mr. Osborne's soul, which she was to realize.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Your chestnut or your olive-colour'd face Does never fail: and your long ear doth promise.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Rhode Island was thus left to the English, who retained it for a year longer, evacuating then for strategic reasons.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

How can your father and you look each other in the face, when you say so?' “'Go on,' said Phil, 'you're a fire-eater: so you may say what you like.' “'Didn't your father, in your name, propose for her upon some former occasion, in the fair of Castle Cumber, and he remembers the answer he got.' “'Go on,' said Phil, 'you're a fire-eater; that's all I have to say to you.' “'And now, having ruined her reputation by a base and cowardly plot concocted with a wicked old woman, who would blast the whole family if she could, because M'Loughlin transported her felon son; you, now, like a paltry clown as you are, skulk out of the consequences of your treachery, and refuse to give satisfaction for the diabolical injury you have inflicted on the whole family.'
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

Mrs. Goodwin wanted Matthias to come over to-day, for after you left, Emily, she called for 'Peter, colored Peter,' looking as if expecting to find him.
— from The Harvest of Years by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell

I imagine he was my grandfather, but he and the others left my father alone and we cut out the lot." "Were your father and you like each other?" "Not in a way.
— from Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

Or it is but to enable him to sleep, or just to get through this job of work; or it isn't drinking, it is because he feels so cold; or it is Christmas-day; or it is a means of stimulating him to make a more powerful resolution in favor of abstinence than any he has hitherto made; or it is just this once, and once doesn't count, etc., etc., ad libitum —it is, in fact, anything you like except being a drunkard .
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

“And how could you face your other troubles with your heart aye full, and your lap empty?”
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

Then she fetched a yell loud enough almost to split the tree, and went off.
— from Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville

Perhaps he should have thought himself lucky that so fascinating a young lady endured a whole year of so unpromising an engagement.
— from The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.