Have I ever really deserved you, sweetheart; but I mean to make up for that.
— from Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey

In the Devonshire valleys it is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say, “What are you at?”—before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we have all the airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full-grown river.
— from Crocker's Hole From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

"I return you many thanks for Mr. Strachey: I have found him in every respect deserving your good opinion; and I must not forget to express how thankful I am for the assistance you have given Mr. Nevil Maskelyne, to obtain the Regius professorship.
— from The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, Vol. 2 (of 3) Collected from the Family Papers Communicated by the Earl of Powis by John Malcolm

nts is in one of those Protestant religious houses in England,” repeated Dan.
— from April Hopes by William Dean Howells

The woman who accompanies the child shall stay with him some short time, although the good hidalgo is evidently rather doubtful of this arrangement, as he adds that if she should find the horizon of their dull country life too confined for her after Madrid, or begins to kick against the discipline, other arrangements will have to be made.
— from The Year after the Armada, and Other Historical Studies by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

The moonlight smote full upon him, revealing him in every repulsive detail.
— from The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

; Guizot's Lectures on Civilization; Sir James Stephens's article on Hildebrand, in Edinburgh Review; Dugdale's Mosasticon; Hallam's Middle Ages; Digby's Ages of Faith; Jaffe's Regesta Pontificum Romanorum; Mignet's series of articles on La Lutte des Papes contre les Empereurs d'Allemagne; M. Villemain's Histoire de Gregoire VII.;
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord