I am not getting a great income now," said Mrs. Garth, smiling.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

We may also name beauty in a certain sense a mystery, as it mediates to us in a sensuous sign a heavenly gift of grace, that it opens to us a view into the eternal Being, teaching us to know nature in God and God in nature, that it brings the divine even to the perception of sense, and establishes the energy of love and freedom as the ground, the bond, and the end of the world.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

She could not take the risk--she would not; the only thing to be done was that she should go and get it now.
— from Violet Forster's Lover by Richard Marsh

The decree of the Czar of Russia prohibiting the sale of vodka gave a great impetus to British Temperance work, and perhaps Lord Kitchener gave as great if not an even greater stimulus.
— from With Our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by William E. Sellers

"I go about gallivanting in no motor," said his mother.
— from The Regent by Arnold Bennett

It was chiefly to propitiate the gods and give its notes back to the trumpet that he had returned to Hawaii.
— from Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

That unhappy-eyed youth had in some way got a grip, if not on my affection, at least on my interest.
— from The Man Who Couldn't Sleep by Arthur Stringer

But we know, painters certainly must know if they look at old masters at all, that Tiepolo, if he was the last of the old masters, was also the first of the moderns; it was his painting in Spain which influenced Goya, and Goya is not only a deceased Spanish master, he is a European master of to-day.
— from Masques & Phases by Robert Baldwin Ross

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— from Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler

Was it any wonder that, seeing he could not maintain his gloom and grimness in Noll's sunshine, and finding it slipping away from him in spite of his endeavors to retain it, he should astonish his nephew by strange fits of moroseness, alternating with the utmost kindness and indulgence?
— from Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught by Glance Gaylord