The life of Dainty was a menace to Mrs. Ellsworth and her nieces, for if she could prove her marriage to [165] Lovelace Ellsworth on the middle of July, she would wrest from his step-mother the wealth she claimed by reason of his failure to marry before his birthday, and in which she was making her nieces joint sharers.
— from Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Mrs. Daggett had resolved that “Lives of Famous People,” in its best red leather binding, should adorn her own parlor table in the near future, if she could persuade Henry to consent.
— from An Alabaster Box by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

"Fothergil," I said, cheerily, "Popularity has not overtaken you yet.
— from Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis

She won’t come,” she said to Frank, “if she can possibly help it, because she’s furiously angry with me for asking her why on earth she married Barnabas.
— from Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham

His poor opinion of his whilom son-in-law may have subsequently been confused by the fact of the latter's leaving the princess, his wife, behind when he left the country—though, as a rule, both the wife and her family in such cases preferred her remaining among her own people to venturing into the haunts of civilization.
— from The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 by Various