"Don't you think it was kind of him to draw them for our rookery, my dear Priscilla?" says Miss Penelope, suggestively.
— from Rossmoyne by Duchess

"When we resolved to break jail it was our firm belief that failure or recapture meant death.
— from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

One day she was made the victim of a form of rebuke much dreaded by the pensionnaires .
— from Consequences by E. M. Delafield

the intoxication of reason and laughter, the passion for light, the France of Rabelais, Molière, Diderot, and in music, we will say—for want of better names—the France of Berlioz and Bizet.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

That impenetrable Frenchwoman only replied, “Mon Dieu, Madame, le mariage n’est pas l’amour!”
— from My Lady Nobody: A Novel by Maarten Maartens

When the period for removing the salt came, no time was to be lost, as a sudden fall of rain might destroy in an hour the products of a month.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Samuel de Champlain

“Follow my suit and don’t make faces at the soup; for one really must drink soup, you know, to be Congressman from this district.
— from The Lonesome Trail by John G. Neihardt

Marcus Wilkeson, however, as soon as he saw that Tiffles was actually about to perform the amazing feat of raising money, determined, as an act of common justice, to insist upon his receiving twenty per cent.
— from Round the Block: An American Novel by John Bell Bouton