This letter was full of reproaches to Janetta for giving so much trouble to her friends; "for, of course," Mrs. Colwyn wrote, "Miss Polehampton's concern for your health is all a blind in order to get you away: and if it hadn't been for Miss Adair taking you up, she would have been only too glad to keep you.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
"Why have you never written to me all these years, Ulric?" she asked, and he knew that the faltering voice meant good for him.
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame
"I am pleased to find that you have taken so sensible a view of the matter, and that you understand so thoroughly your position under my roof.
— from The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 by Various
Now I fear there will be the devil to pay for the lecture—the university is going to be surprised, the faculty shocked beyond measure and the Yale Union severely criticized!"
— from From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Alexander Irvine
Solid though these metals appear they yield under severe stress with a semi-fluid quality.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles
He typified for me all the young unsophisticated strength of my country, but with more "punch" than it usually manifests, in matters intellectual at least.
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
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