Dear Carlyle , I was very glad of your letter: especially as regards that part in it about the Derbyshire villages.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1 by Edward FitzGerald

He was hailed by a group of youthful literary enthusiastics as a man of promise.
— from Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life by Joseph Collins

"Good on you, lads!" exclaimed the chief officer of coastguards.
— from The Scouts of Seal Island by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

"Sure I do," I replied, "and I recollect when we paraded with one of the companies on the Fourth of July and you had a belt that was intended for a fat man and it went around you twice and then you had to hold it up and your cap was two sizes too large and the visor was generally over your left ear.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt

Once more the gleams Of your lost Eden haunt our dreams, Where Evil, at the touch of Good, Withers in the Enchanted Wood: Fairies, come back!
— from Collected Poems: Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

"No," said Rupert; "if there was any theft it was on your side; you robbed me of my heart with the first glance of your lovely eyes, so that when I got possession of yours it was only a fair exchange, which, according to the proverb, is no robbery."
— from Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends. by Martha Finley

“I should have been very glad of you last evening,” said she, “for papa went to sleep, and my book was out of reach.”
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

“I wish you luck, my dear young ladies, but you will find yourselves in pretty hot company for girls of your limited experience at the nets.
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls on the Tennis Courts; Or, Winning Out in the Big Tournament by Janet Aldridge

They had every guerdon of young love, except that there were not so many years before them.
— from Country Neighbors by Alice Brown