As things fell out, she slipped into love without knowing it.
— from Love and Lucy by Maurice Hewlett

Then, when I have drunk my fill of sweet sights, I love to sit silent, while the great bell hums in the roof, and gathering footsteps of young and old patter through the echoing aisles.
— from The Upton Letters by Arthur Christopher Benson

And this very virtue which is the foundation of successful salesmanship is likely to lead the salesman into gross rudeness.
— from The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Braddy Henney

‘It may, however,’ he says of her book, ‘be admitted that her frankness on some subjects is little less than astounding, and that matters are discussed which are rarely named even among members of the same sex, far less printed for both....
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson

The fracture of such substances is like that of glue or glass.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev