He did not at that time follow the conversation any further; only remarking cheerfully, and sympathetically too, "We must have some more talk about this, Miss Diana; but we'll take another opportunity," and so presently left her at her own door, with the warm, strong grasp of the hand that many a one in trouble had learned to know.
— from Diana by Susan Warner

The severe, ascetic music, level and calm like an ocean horizon, serene even to monotony, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its fervour of religious contemplation as sometimes to rise to ecstasy, had a strange, almost a disagreeable effect on me at first.
— from Charles Gounod Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Charles Gounod

Tuaregs even today are very fond of raiding caravans and small towns.
— from Captured by the Arabs by James H. Foster