Professor Sanford Bell, fellow in Clark University, who has the somewhat dubious honor of being the pioneer in the scientific treatment of the emotion of love between the sexes—I dislike that line intensely, but, really, I see no way out of it—has discovered that “as early as the sixth and seventh year presents are taken from their places of safekeeping, kissed and fondled as expressions of love for the absent giver.”
— from Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

After I had drunk my coffee, I lay late in bed, reviewing it, smiling over Arsenio’s malicious gayety, over Godfrey’s surly puzzlement, over myself struggling between amusement and disgust, over Lucinda’s delicate aloofness and assumed unconsciousness of anything peculiar in the situation.
— from Lucinda by Anthony Hope

The book would not let itself be read; it sulked and had to be laid down, for "beautiful woman!
— from Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier

—He soon bequeathed his Indian kingdom to his son Humáyun, who lost it, but recovered it shortly before his death by defeating Sikandar Sur at Sirhind.
— from The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir

He peered into my face, then into that of the cowboy next to me, then into Wright's and if ever in my life I beheld relief I saw it then.
— from The Rustlers of Pecos County by Zane Grey