Yesterday when I passed your old house in the Place Royale, all the memories of our love and happiness awoke again within me.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

, thinkers, scientists, even the official magnates, of other lands, as honor'd guests.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

If these philosophers are reminded that, according to St. Jerome, in his "Life of Paul the Hermit," that hermit had many conversations with satyrs and fauns; that a raven carried to him every day, for thirty years together, half of a loaf for his dinner, and a whole one on the day that St. Anthony went to visit him, they might reply again, that all this is not absolutely inconsistent with natural philosophy; that satyrs and fauns may have existed; and that, at all events, whether the narrative be a recital of facts, or only a story fit for children, it has nothing at all to do with the miracles of our Lord and His apostles.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

“We’re mostly our own lawyers around here,” he said easily.
— from The Golden Woman: A Story of the Montana Hills by Ridgwell Cullum

"The self-same reasoning will apply, and in precisely the same mode, to the miracles of our Lord and His apostles, together with their transmission by records from their times.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

But this thou sayest, not knowing the mind of our Lady, and how she loved him in her inmost heart.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

I have, I believe, consulted every important map of old London, and have found it no easy task to obtain a clear notion of the appearance of the building at that period.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

“Well, Uncle Ian, my father asked me to say that he hoped you would get as much out of life as he had, and that you would leave it as honest.”
— from The Trespasser, Complete by Gilbert Parker

"Many miles out of London," answered Hugh.
— from Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

In this serious poem, which he retained in his later collections, though without the declarative initials, [39] Lowell intimates very clearly that his maturer outlook on life, and his attitude toward poetry are due largely to the inspiration {127} which he has derived from the aspirations of his betrothed.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

We may often observe how the novelist or dramatist has tolerable success so long as his personages are quiet, or moved only by the vulgar motives of ordinary life, and how fatally uninteresting, because unreal, these very personages become as soon as they are exhibited under the stress of emotion: their language ceases at once to be truthful, and becomes stagey; their conduct is no longer recognisable as that of human beings such as we have known.
— from The Principles of Success in Literature by George Henry Lewes