I wondered if you, Bruno, would help her and let me go away and work out my punishment, for, believe me, I never thought of shirking it.
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

When I think of Cornwall the vision that comes before me is not that of sheltered sun-bathed balconies, but rather of a high wind making the breakers frill around the jagged bases of the cliffs, while above, amid the towans or sandhills covered with bent grass, the golf-balls fly.
— from Cornwall by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

The condition of the mountain ways and passes immediately above Bala Murghab is not that of steep and difficult tracks across a rugged and rocky divide.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

After the lapse of more than a century, one can acknowledge the pathos, the humanity of the incident, but the manner is not that of Sterne.
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer

Business had made it necessary to open some closed records in the late Cornelius Darby's affairs, records that Mrs. Jerusha Darby herself had not yet examined.
— from The Reclaimers by Margaret Hill McCarter

The novelist Matteo Bandello, himself a friar of the Dominican convent of S. Maria delle Grazie at Milan, is never tired of singing Cecilia's praises, and of describing the pleasant company who met at the countess's palace in Milan or at her villa near Cremona.
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

But the truth is, the whole history of the race is one complete and compact contradiction of the theory of Hobbes, and shows with the clearness of demonstration, that the natural condition of man is not that of seclusion, and isolation from his fellows, but of society and companionship.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

The marvel is not that one should thus retain, but that any should ever lose them Go the world over, and after you have put away the wonder and tenderness of youth what is there left?
— from Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Truman was one of the first to fly, and he returned to his occupation immediately; and in a very short time afterwards the whole of them had dispersed in different directions, though they might have proceeded with impunity for aught the yeomanry did, they never having assembled at all; and, in fact, although I was in the troop myself, I never thought of sending for them.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt