You smile when I expect to make a thinker, a philosopher, a young theologian, of an ardent, lively, eager, and fiery young man, at the most impulsive period of youth.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

152 The less echoey and factorylike your office is, the more productive it will be.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

Upon the summit of this mountain stands the famous lighthouse erected a few years ago, and maintained by contributions from most of the European States.
— from Morocco, Its People and Places by Edmondo De Amicis

I know how they do it; let 'em alone, 'f yer know when yer 're well off, 's my motter.
— from The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

"She has been a little excited, and forgot you, perhaps," answered Madam Conway, at the same time bidding one of the servants to show the young lady to Mrs. Jeffrey's room.
— from Maggie Miller: The Story of Old Hagar's Secret by Mary Jane Holmes

True to you I must and will remain, but I will not leave Elijah and follow you.
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

He gave me to understand that in this will he left everything away from you.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

My appetite still continues keen enough; and what I consider as a symptom of radical health, I have a voracious delight in raw summer fruit, of which I was less eager a few years ago [1095] .
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

195 A relationship between the two men had long existed and for years had been unfriendly.
— from Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent by Hester Donaldson Jenkins