Author of “A World of Girls,” “Daddy’s Girl,” “Light of the Morning,” “Palace Beautiful,” “A Girl in Ten Thousand,” etc. NEW YORK THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY 1910 Polly
— from Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade

Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house.
— from Studies and Essays: Quality, and Others by John Galsworthy

The man Berrisford and I have in history is a dreamy old thing who goes into thoughtful trances every now and then in the middle of a sentence, while three hundred and fifty stylographic pens hang in mid-air waiting to harpoon the next word.
— from The Diary of a Freshman by Charles Macomb Flandrau

Those not employed on cleansing and scouring were formed into three companies of Militia whose duty it was to keep guard in the town every night, to prevent surprise attacks.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

The essential merit of our present system of government is that the Executive, no less than the Parliament of the United Kingdom, represents the country as a whole.
— from A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 by Albert Venn Dicey

But it is of the greatest importance that the exact nature of this process be realized by both students and teachers, for weighty considerations grow out of it.
— from Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Wesley Mills

Almanzor, in Dryden’s tragedy of “Almahide,” did not change sides with more gallant indifference than the exemplary nurse.
— from Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron