Throughout the summer, I carried on a course of Platonic love with my charming Angela at the house of her teacher of embroidery, but her extreme reserve excited me, and my love had almost become a torment to myself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"If Joe Hall doesn't vote for Burroughs it is the first time that he ever resisted easy money," quoth the doctor.
— from A Man of Two Countries by Alice Harriman

In the edition of Crowne in the series of The Dramatists of the Restoration , the editors maintain Cibber’s greater indebtedness to Crowne than to Molière, in a way that makes one doubt whether they had ever read either Molière or Cibber.
— from Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1 by Pearl Hogrefe

Nevertheless the fact that he was cut out that particular evening proved to be one of the clearest streaks of luck that had ever occurred in his career, and a good many others besides he had equal reason ere morning dawned to be thankful for it.
— from The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays' Rebellion by Edward Bellamy

W. Humble, Esq.; Resident Engineer , Mr. John Sampson.
— from All about Battersea by Henry S. Simmonds