The Cincinnati Enquirer in a complimentary notice said: "Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Revolution grows with each additional number more spicy, readable and revolutionary.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Tell me else, Could such inordinate and low desires, Such poor, such base, such lewd, such mean attempts, Such barren pleasures, rude society, As thou art match’d withal and grafted to, Accompany the greatness of thy blood, And hold their level with thy princely heart?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To have dinners, visits, carriages, rank and slaves to wait on one is looked upon as a necessity, for which life, honor and human feeling are sacrificed, and men even commit suicide if they are unable to satisfy it.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We walked up the middle of the principal street, and these vermin surrounded us on all sides and glared upon us; and every moment excited couples shot ahead of the procession to get a good look back, just as village boys do when they accompany the elephant on his advertising trip from street to street.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Poenus ubi, id quod petierat, clausum lacu ac montibus et circumfusum suis copiis habuit hostem, signum omnibus dat simul invadendi.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The fact that Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Susan B. Anthony were the only ladies admitted upon the platform at Cooper Institute, may be regarded as not only committing them to Governor Seymour's views, but as committing the approaching Democratic convention, in whose behalf he spoke, to the doctrine of woman suffrage.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

And not with marked courtesy of tone: “Well, sor, what will you have?" I was a little disconcerted, and my easy confidence suffered a shrinkage.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Quel che par si` membruto e che s'accorda, cantando, con colui dal maschio naso, d'ogne valor porto` cinta la corda; e se
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

It would be worse than useless she well knew to persuade the girl not to tell her mother, even could she herself have condescended to do so.
— from Philippa by Mrs. Molesworth

"No one quite understands me except Cecil," she muttered.
— from Girls New and Old by L. T. Meade

We had passed through Montefiaschone (famous for its wine) and Viterbo (for its fountains): and after climbing up a long hill of eight or ten miles’ extent, came suddenly upon the margin of a solitary lake: in one part very beautiful, with a luxuriant wood; in another, very barren, and shut in by bleak volcanic hills.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens

Of course, stay as long as Mr. Edwards could spare her—a month; if possible.
— from Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick

And Love owed much to her tender care; for the hired nurse proved very incompetent, and the ladies of the household gave no help, Mrs. Ellsworth continuing so ill for days as to engross the attention of Olive and Ela.
— from Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

His disclosures in regard to the prevalence of polygamy among the "Latter-Day Saints," so called, are of the most explicit character, showing that a plurality of wives is adopted, as a part of their social economy, from a sense of religious duty.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852 by Various

They lay in wait for her at the side entrance, followed her, while one dissipated and desperate person, married, and said to move in the most exclusive circles, sent her an offer of a yearly income in five figures, the note being reproduced on the screen, and Leila pictured reading it in her frigid hall-bedroom.
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill