We resolved this time to have everything ready beforehand, so that we could spend the entire two weeks in solid pleasure.
— from The Scientific American Boy; Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond

He always explained his early retirement by saying: “The public loves me, and I want it to always love me.
— from The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin by Harry Houdini

They insulted not only the adversary, they insulted his father, his grandfather, and his entire race; better still they denied his past.
— from Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland

Her account of a visit to the great Hawaian volcano is one of the best we have ever read, being simple, terse and vivid, without the overloading with detail that spoils so many of the pen-pictures of the day.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various

Dr. Brushfield, in his excellent Ralegh Bibliography , suggests that Wood may have meant this essay by the Aphorisms of State , to which he alludes as having been published in 1661 by Milton, and as identical with Maxims of State .
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

A few, however, escaped reflection by stealing through the slanting shutters of a window close under the roof of the building.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

It was affirmed of Neilson that, in the bad days above referred to, he never countenanced violence, but carried on his profession, for the most part, without personal injury to his victims, accomplishing his ends rather by strategy, than by brutality.
— from My Fire Opal, and Other Tales by Sarah Warner Brooks

Never had Elias Rody been seen to greater advantage.
— from The White Squaw by Mayne Reid