Bear in mind, and let it not escape thy memory, how she receives thee; if she changes colour while thou art giving her my message; if she is agitated and disturbed at hearing my name; if she cannot rest upon her cushion, shouldst thou haply find her seated in the sumptuous state chamber proper to her rank; and should she be standing, observe if she poises herself now on one foot, now on the other; if she repeats two or three times the reply she gives thee; if she passes from gentleness to austerity, from asperity to tenderness; if she raises her hand to smooth her hair though it be not disarranged.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A man who has much to do with that kind of politics which concerns both New York politicians and New York business men and lawyers is not easily surprised, and therefore I felt no other emotion than a rather sardonic amusement when thirty-six hours later I read in the morning paper an open letter from the officials of the very company who had been communicating with me in which they enthusiastically advocated the renomination of the Superintendent.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

The ceilings of the Mohammedan [Pg 318] mosques are largely, if not exclusively, built of it.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

He went out saying if I changed my mind any time I was to let him know, and he'd be over again soon to talk mules at least, if nothing else, and anything he could do for me any time, just say the word, and try some of this gum, and so forth.
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson

In the West and South especially it was deemed necessary to give Mexico a lesson; in New England the war was not popular.
— from The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann

"Mamma," asked Lora, "is not Elsie to be allowed to go too?"
— from Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley

the length of our minority, and let it not end till this battle is thoroughly fought out in approving daylight.
— from Sandra Belloni — Volume 4 by George Meredith

There is nothing in the whole of life so beautiful or so holy but that it can be spoilt when mishandled, and love is no exception to this.
— from Men, Women, and God A Discussion of Sex Questions from the Christian Point of View by A. Herbert (Arthur Herbert) Gray