[Lost Illusions.] TURQUET (Marguerite), born about 1816, better known under the sobriquet of Malaga, having a further appellaton of the "Aspasia of the Cirque-Olympique," was originally a rider in the famous Bouthor Traveling Hippodrome, and was later a Parisian star at the Franconi theatre, in the summer on the Champs-Elysees, in the winter on the Boulevard du Crime.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

—For the hundred years succeeding the abandonment of the Moluccas, the Philippines lost all political significance as a colony.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Rose the sultana from a bed of splendour, Softer than the soft Sybarite's, who cried Aloud because his feelings were too tender To brook a ruffled rose-leaf by his side,— So beautiful that art could little mend her, Though pale with conflicts between love and pride;— So agitated was she with her error, She did not even look into the mirror.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

And Dr. Lyman Abbott periodically says Amen.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Now torne we ayein to Troilus, That resteles ful longe a-bedde lay, And prevely sente after Pandarus, 1585
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Just as we were considering what matter and what person it would be best to begin writing of, by a lucky coincidence suddenly from a distance of a thousand li, a person small and insignificant as a grain of mustard seed happened, on account of her distant relationship with the Jung family, to come on this very day to the Jung mansion on a visit.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

And, very unluckily for the world, persons so qualified very seldom care to take upon themselves the bad trade of writing; which is generally entered upon by the lower and poorer sort, as it is a trade which many think requires no kind of stock to set up with.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

First, a gay and sprightly fluency; afterwards, a lofty and penetrating subtlety; and lastly, a mature and constant vigour.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

So much did I love that good night that I reached the stage of hoping that it would come as late as possible, so as to prolong the time of respite during which Mamma would not yet have appeared.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

We found her awfully busy, making pies and [Pg 94] jellies, and her two sisters were hurrying about with great hams and pairs of chickens and rounds of cold beef and lettuces and pickled salmon and trays of crockery and glasses.
— from The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit

One long and pious scold, after a high-minded, bad-tempered formula of its own.”
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

" She got up from the table, and went to a window, where she stood biting her lips, and paying small attention to her mother's elaborate protests that she, too, had no intention of being moved.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

I stood back, as one does in such circumstances, half afraid to act—half afraid that to touch the knob or assault the closed and silent room would be to bring the sky crashing down to earth, turn loose a pestilence, set a demon free, or expose some sight grisly enough to turn the observer to stone.
— from The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle by Richard Washburn Child

When his Eyes are set to a languishing Air, his Motions all prepar’d according to Art, his Wig and his Coat abundantly Powder’d, his Gloves Essenc’d, and his Handkercher perfum’d and all the rest of his Bravery rightly adjusted, the greatest part of the day, as well the business of it at home, is over; ’tis time to launch, and down he 70 comes, scented like a Perfumers Shop, and looks like a Vessel with all her rigging under sail without Ballast.
— from An essay in defence of the female sex In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady. by Drake, Judith, active 1696-1707

For a long time, what right life there was in the upper classes of Europe depended in no small degree on the necessity which each man was under of being able to fence; at this day, the most useful things which boys learn at public schools, are, I believe, riding, rowing, and cricketing.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

The orchestra played several numbers previous to the ceremony—the Mendelssohn March for processional, and Lohengrin for recessional, but the really exquisite music was during the ceremony, when there came to us softly, as if floating from afar over gold lace and perfumed silks and satins, the enchanting strains of Moszkowski's Serenade!
— from Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe