A ROOM WITH A VIEW By E. M. Forster CONTENTS Part One: Chapter I: The Bertolini Chapter II: In Santa Croce with No Baedeker Chapter III: Music, Violets, and the Letter “S” Chapter IV: Fourth Chapter Chapter V: Possibilities of a Pleasant Outing Chapter VI: The Reverend Arthur Beebe, the Reverend Cuthbert Eager, Mr. Emerson, Mr. George Emerson, Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, and Miss Lucy Honeychurch Drive Out in Carriages to See a View; Italians Drive Them Chapter VII: They Return Part Two: Chapter VIII: Medieval Chapter IX: Lucy
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The Reverend Arthur Beebe, the Reverend Cuthbert Eager, Mr. Emerson, Mr. George Emerson, Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, and Miss Lucy Honeychurch Drive Out in Carriages to See a View; Italians Drive Them.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

But in spite of the bad condition of the roads, the Ion carriage drove over early in the afternoon, and Grandma Elsie, Mrs. Elsie Leland—her namesake daughter—Rosie and Evelyn alighted from it.
— from Christmas with Grandma Elsie by Martha Finley

There was no inside place, and I was very unwell; but the fear of being quite laid up at Lutterworth, and becoming burthensome to those dear saints who had received me into their house though a stranger to them; and having still no desirable medical advice; and the remembrance that the Lord had graciously enabled me, even lately, to travel outside in cold weather; induced me to get on the coach, and I rode off in a heavy fall of snow.
— from A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 2 by George Müller

Imagination here is free and moves with growing ease, music enlarges like a splendid wind through the verse; and the common reproach of mere "poetic plays" has been avoided in these, where character and action develope as surely as music itself.
— from King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Danaë by Gordon Bottomley

Thus God encouraged me, ere landing on China's shores, to bring every variety of need to Him in prayer, and to expect that He would honour the Name of the Lord Jesus , and give the help which each emergency required.
— from A Retrospect by James Hudson Taylor

Guglielmo Emanuel MOSCOW— Edward L. Deuss MADRID—
— from What's in the New York Evening Journal America's Greatest Evening Newspaper by New York evening journal

Bien estoit si biauté gastée, Et moult ert lede devenuë.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

montra grand et magnanime envers les Français faits prisonniers; il sut les garantir, par son énergique volonté, des violences et de la barbarie Turques; il mérita leur estime et leur affection; et la loyautè Française aime à reconnâitre que sa conduite, lors même qu'il était l'allié de nos ennemis, fut noble et généreuse envers ceux que le sort des armes mettait en sa puissance.
— from Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars Second Edition by James Burnes

You may give them a good education, may even leave them a substantial legacy.
— from A Christmas Gift to the American Home and the Youth of America by N. P. (Niels Peter) Gravengaard