Only life in the home itself can show what a Japanese home may be; and only by intimate association—such as no foreign man can ever hope to gain—with the Japanese ladies themselves can much be learned of the thoughts and daily lives of the best Japanese women.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

When, at length, I told him I could stay no longer, and bid him good night, he said, “There is none like you, my dear little Burney!
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

Around an “L” in the hall I could see a ground-glass window with a light shining through it.
— from The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Mrs Parkyn is very considerate, but the Bishop has signified his intention of lunching in this house; I could scarcely venture to contravene his lordship’s wishes.”
— from The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner