She began hurriedly: 'I am so sorry Mr. Lennox is not here,—he could have done it so much better than I can.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Another of the Manila papers gives an account of the speech from which it appears that the burly Professor succeeded in amusing himself at least, if not his audience, by suggestions as to the superior fighting qualities of the Moros over the Filipinos, which suggestions were on the idea that the Moros would lick the Filipinos if we should leave the country.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Among young people of opposite sexes, living in neighbouring huts, the transient commerce required by nature soon led, through mutual intercourse, to another kind not less agreeable, and more permanent. Men began now to take the difference between objects into account, and to make comparisons; they acquired imperceptibly the ideas of beauty and merit, which soon gave rise to feelings of preference.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The label is not here termed white, and it is peculiar that we find it of another colour in another coat of Fitz-Simon (azure, a lion rampant ermine, a label of four point gules).
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

His situation, in fact, seemed, materially speaking, no more brilliant than Ned Winsett's; but he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Love I never had and have not.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When he halted before the binnacle, with his glance fastened on the pointed needle in the compass, that glance shot like a javelin with the pointed intensity of his purpose; and when resuming his walk he again paused before the mainmast, then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted gold coin there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only dashed with a certain wild longing, if not hopefulness.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

DUKE 'Tis certain, then, for Cyprus.— Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

This accounts for the participial form forlorn , or lost , in New High German verloren .
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

My one and last kiss is full of ringing sorrow—and the one I love is not here, and I seek love again, and I tell my tale in vain—my heart cannot bare itself, and the poison torments me and my head grows heavier.
— from The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

And I'm not a good lover; I neglected her all the while this trouble lasted, and I paid more attention to Georgie Howard than I did to her—and I didn't satisfactorily explain about that hair and knife that Hagar had.
— from Good Indian by B. M. Bower

His poetry is somewhat matter-of-fact, like the songs of the Indigo bunting and the Thrushes, and we cannot help but feel that the songs of these birds had the effect on him that Burns speaks of in one of his letters: "I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of the soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry."
— from Rambles with John Burroughs by R. J. H. (Robert John Henderson) De Loach

What lifting is necessary, her son does when he comes to see her.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

Thus limonite is never, hematite is usually, and magnetite is always, crystalline.
— from Common Minerals and Rocks by William O. (William Otis) Crosby

But the test of true love is not here.
— from The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey