"Let it be brighter every day then," said her brother.
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

The numbers seem to have been about 19,000 foot and 7600 horse, the royalists having some 3000 less infantry but being equally strong in cavalry.
— from Battles of English History by H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George

And now four places are rivals; in trade somewhat, but Glasgow leads in beauty, but Edinburgh, after all, is unique in dignity, but Aberdeen is un
— from The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark

I might have become a Marshal of France; nay, I am sure, I should, unless I had lost my life in battle; but, even so, I should have preserved my honor.
— from For Love of a Bedouin Maid by Voleur

“I had his life in the crook of my finger,” he would say; “had I acted on my first thought, Clan Campbell would never have lost Inverlochy; but bha e air an dàn ,—what will be will be,—and Grahame’s fate was not in the crook of my finger, though so I might think it Aren’t we the fools to fancy sometimes our human wills decide the course of fate, and the conclusions of circumstances?
— from John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

The first three were business communications, brief and legal, in big buff envelopes.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

The lawyer is bound by every law of decency, policy and manners to treat the aged dame with the utmost consideration.
— from Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train

“But the latter is believed by everyone in town to be still in India.
— from The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias by William Le Queux