"I think it just was here from the beginning," said Lilian, "and somehow it never got away."
— from The Dorrance Domain by Carolyn Wells

I wish he had; it might have saved this woman's life, although she is not Gretchen.'
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

Life as such is neither good nor bad, and, Audubon's undistinguishing censure is surely as much out of place as Coryat's undistinguishing approval.
— from A Modern Symposium by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson

I wish he had; it might have saved this woman's life, although she is not Gretchen."
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

And then, of course, as she has let Alderwood, she is not going to live here; so perhaps it doesn’t very much matter.
— from Blanche: A Story for Girls by Mrs. Molesworth

This sculpture has, moreover, a marvellous preference for ugly old men—gross, or ascetically imbecile; and for ill-grown striplings: except the St. George of Donatello, whose body, however, is entirely encased in inflexible leather and steel, it never gives us the perfection and pride of youth.
— from Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee

The hamlet was conservative in its habits of life and slow in numerical growth.
— from A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II. by Stephen M. Ostrander

God send me, if it were but the relics and leavings, or an ounce-weight or two, of His matchless love; and suppose I never got another heaven (provided this blessed fire were evermore burning), I could not but be happy for ever.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford