The Age we Live in and its Great Events After its long career of triumph and disaster, glory and shame, the world stands to-day at the end of an old and the beginning of a new century, looking forward with hope and backward with pride, for it has just completed the most wonderful hundred years it has ever known, and has laid a noble foundation for the twentieth century, now at its dawn.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

She was an elementary woman, but at this treatment from the man she had known as her lover a natural indignation sprang up in her
— from Lucian the dreamer by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

Now did Sir Lancelot begin to doubt what course he should pursue, when suddenly the damsel, who, having bound up the wounds of the captive knight as he lay, and now sat a little way off watching the event, cried out with a shrill voice— "Sir Knight, the tree:—a goodly bough for the gathering."
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

She rose on the morning of her marriage day with his favourite Planxty Kelly at her lips, a natural bubble of the notes.
— from Diana of the Crossways — Complete by George Meredith

Odo listened for some mention of his humpbacked friend, or of Momola the foundling; but the abate's talk kept a higher level and no one less than a cavaliere figured on his lips.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

He wore a brilliantly purple bath towel knotted about his loins and nothing else.
— from Legacy by James H. Schmitz