'And I might add that though I find your hall quite charming, it's very unsatisfactory as a reception-room.'
— from The Romantic Lady by Michael Arlen
“I know that Baron von Falkenberg was killed in a duel a few months after his marriage, and that that is five years ago.”
— from Kings-at-Arms by Marjorie Bowen
Give it me, and take the ivy for yourself.’
— from In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
This means, again, that there is for you no act without an agent, no quality and phenomenon without a substance, without a real subject.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
She hesitated a moment, and then, "That is for you to say," she replied, lowering her eyes.
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
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