But the Alps, from their position between the two most brilliant nations of the Continent—France and Italy—and from the extraordinary series of memorable events of which they have been the theatre, since the earliest periods of European history, are the most celebrated range of mountains in the world.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849 by Various

Whenever my mother boxed my ears, or was too hasty in her judgment to be quite just, I went over to my silent city and sat down and looked at the tombstone, and thought if it were really mine how sorry my mother would feel for what she had done.
— from Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris

It was a marvelous exhibition of what the human intellect, when all its powers are concentrated upon a single object, is capable of achieving.
— from Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

The war was carried on with great vigour and various success: the savages, led by an intrepid chief, who believed that the fate of his country depended on the entire destruction of the English, made exertions of which they had not been thought capable.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

They may probably have existed in other parts of Europe, where, being made entirely of wood, they have long since decayed, and their representations may have survived only on the outskirts of civilisation.
— from On the Development and Distribution of Primitive Locks and Keys by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

But as the pupils were not taught how to take notes, nearly all of them were content to write very rapidly, from the professor's dictation, a rough draft, which they copied out at home in the form of a rédaction , without any endeavour to grasp the meaning either of what they heard or what they transcribed.
— from Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Seignobos

It was a marvellous exhibition of what the human intellect, when all its powers are concentrated upon a single object, is capable of achieving.
— from Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

Patient Grizel, herself the incarnation in literary form of a type of woman's faithfulness and meek endurance of wrong that had floated long in mediæval tradition, might have shrunk from some of the cruel tasks which Lord Thomas—the 'Child Waters' of the favourite English variant—lays upon the mother of his unborn child—the woman whose self-surrender had been so complete that she has not the blessing of Holy Church and the support of wifely vows to comfort her in her hour of trial.
— from The Balladists by John Geddie