She is not a bit like English old ladies, sticking to their hideous early Victorian settings for their diamonds; hers are the very latest, and although she is seventy-eight, she crosses the ocean twice a year to have her frocks fitted, and see what is going on.
— from Elizabeth Visits America by Elinor Glyn
I believe that this is no accident, but, like everything else, a special arrangement.
— from In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
It is not a bad lesson either."
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner
“I have fallen in with clergy that some call holy, and with some that others call pious, but he is not a bit like either.
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
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