Love departs and is not love: As from sight the eye departs Even so do hearts from hearts; And at other hands we prove Fancies love as the eyes rove, Parted pleasures come again.'
— from The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio

To them, at first, Liberalism and the Empire, Rights and Principles, are real and simple things.
— from Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Graham Wallas

Mrs. Fanshawe looked at the end rather tactlessly cheerful.
— from The Dark Tower by Phyllis Bottome

As a matter of fact, however, also in the doctrine of predestination Zwingli and Calvin were just as far and as fundamentally apart from Luther as their entire rationalistic theology differed from the simple and implicit Scripturalism of Luther.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

"Lest thou shouldst slip through his fingers like a Teviot eel," replied the page with a grin.
— from Bothwell; or, The Days of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

Dependents they do not and ought not to consider themselves (for they are not such in any sense whatever); equals, their own perceptions show them they are not in any sense, but a political one; and they seem to me, in consequence, to be far less at their ease really in their intercourse with their employers or landlords than our own people, with their much more positive and definite sense of difference of condition and habits of life.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

He was intensely moved by the grandeur of the struggle for life, and the ethical rule which it suggested seemed to fit in with his predispositions.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

If I were condemned and saw the fagots lighted, and the executioner ready to stir the fire, and I in the fire, I would say and maintain till I died nought other than what I said during the trial."
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

While still living as a young lawyer in Mutter Aja’s house, he entertained two distinguished visitors, the famous Lavater and the educational reformer Basedow.
— from Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality by Fritz August Gottfried Endell